{"id":782891,"date":"2012-04-11T13:20:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=782891"},"modified":"2012-04-11T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:24:50","slug":"boys-can-do-handicrafts-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/boys-can-do-handicrafts-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys Can Do Handicrafts Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who says that girls&#8217; projects are only for girls to do and vice versa? JD Boy has taken an interest in several of the handicraft type projects that Zippy and I have been doing together. He&#8217;s tried his hand at knitting and crochet. He knitted this scarf that he is wearing in this picture. He was quite proud of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"JD Boy's (age 9) Scarf that he Knitted by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6922608420\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7176\/6922608420_27a907b31d.jpg\" alt=\"JD Boy's (age 9) Scarf that he Knitted\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He especially took a fancy to this embroidery machine that I got. Maybe it was the machine part that was interesting to him, since he&#8217;s a boy, I don&#8217;t know; but he had fun making this present for his grandparents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"JD Boy's (age 9) First Punch Embroidery by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6813390987\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7035\/6813390987_3043e5842b.jpg\" alt=\"JD Boy's (age 9) First Punch Embroidery\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious about the machine, here is the link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keelingskrafts.com\/catalog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Easy Punch Machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. Sometime I will post about my daughter learning about small machine repair. I thought that was a good thing for girls to learn. Like I said, who said only boys can do boys&#8217;s things and vice versa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says that girls&#8217; projects are only for girls to do and vice versa? JD Boy has taken an interest in several of the handicraft type projects that Zippy and I have been doing together. He&#8217;s tried his hand at knitting and crochet. He knitted this scarf that he is wearing in this picture. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782895,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782891\/revisions\/782895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}