{"id":3363,"date":"2008-10-10T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T19:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromutopia.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2008-10-10T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T19:15:02","slug":"what-im-thinking-about-to-distract-myself-from-thinking-about-the-world-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/what-im-thinking-about-to-distract-myself-from-thinking-about-the-world-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m thinking about to distract myself from thinking about the world economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how I know I&#8217;m not a knitblogger anymore? I miscrossed a cable on my current project (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/central-park-hoodie\">Central Park Hoodie<\/a>), noticed several rows after the mistake was made, dropped the six offending stitches down those several rows to correct the mistake, painstakingly (dare I say with surgical precision?) laddered those stitches back up in the correct manner, and resumed knitting with all cables crossing as they should&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and not even for a moment did it occur to me to take out the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. Not a knitblogger.<\/p>\n<p>And now, back to watching the markets slide, and slide, and slide.<\/p>\n<p>Got your Depression survival plan?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/98.129.169.147\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pencil_seller-1029251.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au\/home\/features\/sundaysun\">photo source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;m stockpiling homemade soup in the freezer, actively avoiding looking at my investment statements, and feeling grateful for the changes we made last year. If we were still in Brooklyn, we would be well and good fucked right now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8211;and <a href=\"http:\/\/cassiana.typepad.com\/\">Cassie<\/a> and I are going to sell wool hats to all the cold i-bankers soon to be living in their cars down by the river. (Free hats to anyone living in their car down by the river who can prove they&#8217;ve never been an investment banker or voted for George Bush.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how I know I&#8217;m not a knitblogger anymore? I miscrossed a cable on my current project (Central Park Hoodie), noticed several rows after the mistake was made, dropped the six offending stitches down those several rows to correct &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/what-im-thinking-about-to-distract-myself-from-thinking-about-the-world-economy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I&#8217;m thinking about to distract myself from thinking about the world economy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}