{"id":161,"date":"2019-02-09T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2019-02-09T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:44:23","slug":"and-then-there-was-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"And then there was Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The wedding was the last weekend in October and then I started my Christmas sewing. We draw names for a secret Santa with my side of the family. Luckily I drew the name of one of my granddaughters who I know loves hand made things (well, they both do). So, not only did I sew but I also crocheted. I made her a bag and I made one for my other granddaughter as well, making good on a promise I made earlier in the year&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately I don&#8217;t have a picture of the shawl I crocheted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dakota3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"163\" class=\"wp-image-163\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dakota3-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dakota3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Destiny2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"165\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?attachment_id=165\" class=\"wp-image-165\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Destiny2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Destiny2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dakota2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"166\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?attachment_id=166\" class=\"wp-image-166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dakota2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dakota2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Destiny3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"167\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?attachment_id=167\" class=\"wp-image-167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Destiny3-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Destiny3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dakota1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"170\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?attachment_id=170\" class=\"wp-image-170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dakota1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dakota1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wedding was the last weekend in October and then I started my Christmas sewing. We draw names for a secret Santa with my side of the family. Luckily I drew the name of one of my granddaughters who I know loves hand made things (well, they both do). So, not only did I sew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?p=161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And then there was Christmas!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ov8i-2B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}