{"id":1021,"date":"2006-10-20T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2006-10-20T00:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T04:49:00","slug":"synchronicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"Synchronicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the weirdest thing.  Sometimes I&#8217;ll get a sudden geographical cluster of orders.  After receiving, say, three orders in a week from the Toronto area, I&#8217;ll ask one of the clients if there&#8217;s something going on up there.  Maybe there&#8217;s a meeting, or a showing, or some kind of convention?<\/p>\n<p>There never is.  It&#8217;s just kind of a fluke &#8211; as if all of a sudden, for instance, Australia just woke up all Browncoaty.  Weird.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to meet the edge of what I&#8217;d feel comfortable guaranteeing by Christmas.  I like to allow for &#8220;hit by a bus&#8221; time, in case something happens to me, so I pad in extra time when I&#8217;m giving my knitting estimates.  I would so much rather have someone pleasantly surprised by getting their hat early than have someone be disappointed for the holidays. <\/p>\n<p>Knits up next for NC, NC, and AK.  That&#8217;s Alaska, not Arkansas, if you&#8217;re furrowing your brow over the abbreviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the weirdest thing. Sometimes I&#8217;ll get a sudden geographical cluster of orders. After receiving, say, three orders in a week from the Toronto area, I&#8217;ll ask one of the clients if there&#8217;s something going on up there. Maybe there&#8217;s a meeting, or a showing, or some kind of convention? There never is. It&#8217;s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}