{"id":2430,"date":"2011-08-07T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2011-08-07T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T16:18:16","slug":"willpower-or-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=2430","title":{"rendered":"Willpower or pleasure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) A 12 mile training run up hill and down dale &#8211; thankfully rain-free as the predicted torrential downpour was over. Several hundred metres climb and several hundred descent. Slow and steady and accompanied by Mr Motorbike (who outdid himself) for part of the way. Hot and tiring, but nothing actually hurts and it&#8217;s lovely in the woods&#8230;.and I did come home and have a little nap!<\/p>\n<p>2) Knitting \u00a0a second\u00a0<em>Giotto<\/em> sock, which is oh so fiddly and on oh so teeny tiny needles, when I&#8217;m raring to get going on <em>Soay<\/em>&#8230;in purple&#8230;.and try out i-cord in the flesh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2431\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3) A bar of <em>Cadbury&#8217;s Dairy Milk<\/em> is sitting in the fridge and I&#8217;m rationing myself to a row a day to make it last (at least until the children come home, when anything remaining will disappear, as if by magic!).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m quite normal putting myself through all this. I guess there is method in all the madness and there is something in each of them that I really enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;willpower or pleasure? Or really a little bit of both?<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) A 12 mile training run up hill and down dale &#8211; thankfully rain-free as the predicted torrential downpour was over. Several hundred metres climb and several hundred descent. Slow and steady and accompanied by Mr Motorbike (who outdid himself) for part of the way. Hot and tiring, but nothing actually hurts and it&#8217;s lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-Dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}