{"id":6364,"date":"2022-03-27T23:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2022-06-14T02:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T02:33:40","slug":"a-new-hobby-amigurumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=6364","title":{"rendered":"A new hobby &#8211; Amigurumi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently started making crocheted stuffed animals and dolls.  It&#8217;s called Amigurumi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crocheting is easier on my thumbs which both have arthritis. 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It&#8217;s called Amigurumi. Crocheting is easier on my thumbs which both have arthritis. I can&#8217;t do too much each day, but I do a little every day. I plan to donate them to a police station for kids who are involved in a crisis. Here are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=6364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new hobby &#8211; Amigurumi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aboutus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6699,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions\/6699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}