{"id":1897,"date":"2008-12-28T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2008-12-28T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T15:58:00","slug":"1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/3143516853\/\" title=\"Christmassocklifecycle by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3214\/3143516853_ef2f634478.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"465\" alt=\"Christmassocklifecycle\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Development:<\/b> Christmas socks live most of their life as yarn.  When ready to mature, they leap onto the needles.  The needles knit the fibers together, producing the adult sock.  The size of the sock is determined by environmental factors, such as the quantity of the yarn and size and patience of the child receiving the socks.<\/p>\n<p><b>Adult Life:<\/b>  The newly matured sock quickly adapts to its new home on the foot, often spending 5 days out of the week there.  It must occasionally return to the water to clean itself.  If it does not, its lifespan is greatly shortened.  The sock has a symbiotic relationship with its host, providing it with warmth and Christmas cheer, while the host provides shape and (usually) basic care.<\/p>\n<p><b>Returning to Yarn:<\/b>  The Christmas sock will generally live through the holiday season, approximately 30 days.  The sock develops bare patches as the season wears on.  Its host may provide basic health care in the form of darning, but eventually nature must take its course.  The sock will unravel and return to the yarn from whence it came.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reproduction:<\/b>  The cycle continues the following year, when the host begs for a new pair of socks.<\/p>\n<p><i>Source:  The National Christmas Sock Advisory Council.<\/i><br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development: Christmas socks live most of their life as yarn. When ready to mature, they leap onto the needles. The needles knit the fibers together, producing the adult sock. The size of the sock is determined by environmental factors, such as the quantity of the yarn and size and patience of the child receiving the [&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":[87,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"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=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}