{"id":979,"date":"2007-11-01T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.52.55.152\/?p=979"},"modified":"2007-11-01T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:13:11","slug":"sbq-back-to-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"SBQ: Back to the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This SBQ was suggested by <a href=\"http:\/\/astitchinwrinkledtime.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer<\/a> and is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHow did you get started stitching? Was there a person that inspired you?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s start at the very beginning.  A very good place to start.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s see.  I started stitching sometime around the age of 11, I think.  My mother taught me and I think my first stitched piece was a little owl.  I remember that I stitched several Precious Moments designs, once of which had a birdcage and I made my long stitches too long on the cage bars, so they got really loose and floppy.  I have a picture of myself on the couch as a little kid, hoop and needle in hand.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I guess I would say that my mother inspired me, but she hasn&#8217;t kept up with it.  Teresa Wentzler&#8217;s Rapunzel did her in.  \ud83d\ude06  Now, all of the stitching bloggers out there provide me with inspiration.  There&#8217;s no shortage of it, that&#8217;s for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This SBQ was suggested by Jennifer and is: How did you get started stitching? Was there a person that inspired you? &#8220;Let&#8217;s start at the very beginning. A very good place to start.&#8221; Let&#8217;s see. I started stitching sometime around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/?p=979\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}