{"id":207,"date":"2004-02-03T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T16:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/02\/now-what\/"},"modified":"2004-02-03T12:54:29","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T16:54:29","slug":"now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/02\/now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Rant alert.)<\/p>\n<p>So, I finally found a few minutes to call Alitalia to check whether I could bring my knitting with me on my flight to Italy next month.  One guess what the answer is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>NO!<\/p>\n<p>Can somebody tell me how 5-inch bamboo sticks on either end of a plastic cord can possibly be any more dangerous than a pencil?  Please?  Because I don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>18 hours of flight time, and probably at least 4-6 hours of waiting-in-the-airport time WITH NO KNITTING.  This might very well kill me.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know I could read a book, or do crossword puzzles, or watch the in-flight movies.  But I want to knit.  Maybe I&#8217;ll just bring a couple of pencils and a ball of yarn to knit a scarf&#8230;when you read about the crazy lady who held up an international flight because she was knitting with pencils, that&#8217;ll be me.<\/p>\n<p>(Has anyone managed to bring knitting &#8211; bamboo or plastic needles, of course &#8211; on Alitalia?  Are they just saying no to knitting needles because of those horrid 14-inch metal straight ones?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Rant alert.) So, I finally found a few minutes to call Alitalia to check whether I could bring my knitting with me on my flight to Italy next month. One guess what the answer is&#8230; NO! Can somebody tell me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}