{"id":45,"date":"2008-02-19T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-02-19T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T01:24:00","slug":"beware-the-power-of-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":">Beware the &quot;Power of Seven&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>Hmmmm&#8230;while I was happily knitting away on my new Swallowtail Shawl with my twice frogged Art Yarn called Alfabeto, I was tagged by the mysterious &#8220;Power of 7.&#8221;  Unfortunately I have to pass along this curse to other bloggers who&#8217;ll be named shortly.   It was very sneaky <a href=\"http:\/\/badcatdesigns.blogspot.com\/\">BadCatDesign<\/a> who got me.  Go take a look at her blog, where you&#8217;ll be happily lost in lace knitting for many hours!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the rules for us &#8216;taggees:&#8217;<\/p>\n<div>1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog. <\/div>\n<div>The evil spirit who got me is BadCat, who is extremely interesting and I suggest you go read about her! <\/div>\n<div>2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 7 things you may not know about me:<\/div>\n<div>1) In what feels like another lifetime <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">entirely,<\/span> I studied both ancient Greek and classical Latin.  I got degrees in both.  I also learned to weave then&#8230;.it was the mid 70s.<br \/>2) I love to sing.  I&#8217;d rather sing than talk any day.  I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to sing with some great conductors in some great halls, like Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher, and even NYState Theatre where I sang while the Mark Morris Dance Co. danced!<br \/>3) Someday I&#8217;m going to learn bobbin lace.  Really, I am. When I do I will weave a lovely linen square and surround it with bobbin lace for a handkerchief.<br \/>4) Not so surprisingly, I am a cat person.  All my cats have had Greek names, which has been the greatest use of my many years of Greek studies.  Also, I give boats Greek names.<br \/>5)I am very right brained.  It&#8217;s hard for me to figure out a sequence to accomplish anything, but I somehow manage to finish a few things every now and then by what seems like magic.<br \/>6) I&#8217;m a terrible housekeeper, perhaps because I&#8217;m right brained (I can&#8217;t figure out the order in which to accomplish good housekeeping).  However, most people don&#8217;t realize this weakness in me because I hide things whenever people come over.  These hidden items are often lost for years.<br \/>7) And almost <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">no one<\/span> knows this about me:  I was born in Texas.  I come from a lllloooonnnggg line of Texans on both sides of my family.  I moved away just before starting school, but was back in Texas for a few years during middle school which was in the late 60s, so I was part of the first attempts at desegregation.  I was bused from the &#8220;good&#8221; part of town into the less desirable part.  There were no school buses for this, so at the tender age of 12,  my friends and I braved riding the city bus across town until our mothers panicked and formed a carpool.  In hindsight I realize we were too young to be afraid of the situation, and too young to understand how our parents felt.  There was a lot of violence in the beginning, and I think most of us knew to keep it under wraps or our parents might die of anxiety.  In the long run I found it a valuable experience.<\/p>\n<p>3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;.Like my tagger, BadCat, I might opt for less than seven.  Here are the unfortunate chosen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/callybooker.wordpress.com\/\">Cally Booker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kspoeringtapestries.blogspot.com\/\">Kathy Spoering<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/godtalkwithrevjenn.blogspot.com\/\">Jennifer Lovallo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beartoebrew.blogspot.com\/\">Rob Osborn<\/a> (the amazing homebrew guy!&#8230;and my son!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m off to warn the taggees of their taggedness.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\" id=\"comments\"> <a name=\"comments\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>Hmmmm&#8230;while I was happily knitting away on my new Swallowtail Shawl with my twice frogged Art Yarn called Alfabeto, I was tagged by the mysterious &#8220;Power of 7.&#8221; Unfortunately I have to pass along this curse to other bloggers who&#8217;ll be named shortly. It was very sneaky BadCatDesign who got me. Go take a look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}