{"id":800,"date":"2010-11-21T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2013-05-24T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T21:14:24","slug":"irish-wool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/irish-wool\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish wool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a small packet of wool fleece when I was in Ireland. It was the last one they had, very short staple, full of peat and second cuts but I wanted some so I bought it. I like spinning in the grease so I tried it with this but it was a disaster\u2014I thought the grease would help hold the short staples as I spun but no. . .it didn&#8217;t. I must admit I haven&#8217;t spun much for a number of years and have begun again. I find it meditative\u2014cheaper than therapy.<br \/>\nSo, I washed it a few weeks ago and started carding it yesterday. Today I started spinning and it&#8217;s working. I&#8217;m going slower than usual and putting more twist into it. Not going to win any prizes with this but I&#8217;m happy to be spinning a little bit of Ireland. (I mentioned getting the wool in<a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/ireland-connemara\/\"> my post August 18, 2010<\/a>. It&#8217;s from a Manx Loaghtan sheep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a small packet of wool fleece when I was in Ireland. It was the last one they had, very short staple, full of peat and second cuts but I wanted some so I bought it. I like spinning in the grease so I tried it with this but it was a disaster\u2014I thought&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/irish-wool\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,144],"tags":[379,70,382,170,171],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiber","category-ireland","tag-sheep","tag-spinning","tag-ireland","tag-manx-loaghtan","tag-wool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}