{"id":562,"date":"2009-04-30T23:25:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T04:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2009-04-30T23:25:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T04:25:28","slug":"back-to-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"back to basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>call it living like a poet, call it zen, call it what you will, of late i&#8217;ve harbored the distinct urge to slow down, to live life outside the ubiquitous to do list. <\/p>\n<p>so<\/p>\n<p>today i spent 2 delicious hours in a local book store where i feasted on 2 books of poetry by louise gluck, several home interior coffee table books, and 3 random books spied on my way to a chair. i squirmed and fidgeted and wrestled with the angels as i determinedly focused on being there and only there.<\/p>\n<p>though i haven&#8217;t made much time for stitching lately, when i have picked up some cloth, it&#8217;s been only when (i thought) i had a plan, and once i sat down to stitch, <strong>speed<\/strong> was the name of my game. get it done, and get it done <em>fast<\/em>. when things didn&#8217;t <em>immediately<\/em> turn out to my liking, why i just packed everything up and moved on to something else, something i could check off The List.<\/p>\n<p>today, though, after my morning in training, i came home, cut out a new piece (and i did keep the speed for that, doing it fast before i could think too damn much), and i went back to basics: i basted. i can&#8217;t count high enough to tell you how long it&#8217;s been since i took the time to baste. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/basting.jpg\" alt=\"basting.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"232\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;ll sure be interesting to see if the basting holds everything in place well enough to allow me to stitch fast . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>call it living like a poet, call it zen, call it what you will, of late i&#8217;ve harbored the distinct urge to slow down, to live life outside the ubiquitous to do list. so today i spent 2 delicious hours in a local book store where i feasted on 2 books of poetry by louise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45,31,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enigma","category-my-life-in-stitches","category-natural-curl","category-postcards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}