{"id":583,"date":"2011-02-21T00:25:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T04:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2011-02-21T00:25:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T04:25:19","slug":"the-other-kind-of-spinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"The other kind of spinning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my continuing education program, I took a spinning course this Saturday. I have no interest in actually spinning out any significant or useful quantity of wool, but I have wanted to understand the process for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bojnberry\/5464039292\/\" title=\"CIMG6780 by bojnberry, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5020\/5464039292_561ff1fee6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"CIMG6780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fresh rowing is on the left, my first, rather indifferent, attempt is in the middle and a little bit more tolerable sample from this morning is on the right. I have since misplaced the spindle (well, I put it somewhere the boys can&#8217;t get at it but I can&#8217;t remember where).<\/p>\n<p>The class was interesting. Did you know that the Sleeping Beauty is actually a story about tetanus?  I wonder what all the other Grimm fairytales are about. I wonder is there exists one of those lecture series on CD about that. <\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, due to general business a few months ago, I was late with my Canada Reads 2011. To my advantage, I have read one of the contenders, Unless, a few years back, so I was technically ahead. I started reading The Best Laid plans a week before and only got half way through the book by the time the contest was held. I am glad this book won, it is hilarious! I have since also read Essex County and I have enjoyed it. I felt that it was treated unfairly in the contest, being voted off first because it is a comic book.  It has a teenagey sadness element to it which would stop me from recommending it to just anyone, but it is definitely a worth while read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my continuing education program, I took a spinning course this Saturday. I have no interest in actually spinning out any significant or useful quantity of wool, but I have wanted to understand the process for quite some time. A fresh rowing is on the left, my first, rather indifferent, attempt is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p278IQ-9p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}