{"id":4892,"date":"2008-03-20T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4892","title":{"rendered":"The Jacket Progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Jacket Progresses<\/b><br \/>\nWell, some of you may have seen a week or so ago when I said that I wanted to make a jacket like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcrew.com\/catalog\/product.jhtml?id=prod90977191&#038;catId=cat300193\">this<\/a> one.  Well, despite my lack of garment making skills, it is coming along okay.  And it has even taught me something about my sons.  What has it taught me about them?  Well, during the jacket construction, I worked and worked getting the ruffle right, and then when I had succeeded, I got all distracted with my victory and couldn&#8217;t even put my thoughts together.  I wonder if this distraction of mine feels anything like their distraction.  Probably not.  But it is enlightening, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thursday.  And come back soon for a little announcement about something new in my life.<\/p>\n<p>**My sister read this post and then called me with her heart racing &#8212; she thought that my announcement had to do with me expecting another child.  (Sorry Dean, didn&#8217;t mean to stress you out.)  Alas, that is not what this is about.  It&#8217;s about my new business &#8212; which is boring, compared with a baby, but it <i>is<\/i> my baby, sort of, except that it&#8217;ll hopefully make money for me instead of taking all of mine and I&#8217;m fairly certain that it&#8217;ll let me sleep through the night and won&#8217;t wear diapers for four years.<\/p>\n<p>So, business, yes.  Progeny, no.  And that is the way it has to be.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacket Progresses Well, some of you may have seen a week or so ago when I said that I wanted to make a jacket like this one. Well, despite my lack of garment making skills, it is coming along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}