{"id":16,"date":"2010-09-04T18:50:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T22:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/2010\/09\/my-years\/"},"modified":"2010-09-04T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T22:50:55","slug":"my-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/2010\/09\/my-years\/","title":{"rendered":"My Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Sylfaen\">To begin with, I am a teacher in public schools.&nbsp; As such my year starts in September and ends in August.&nbsp; This cleverly mimics a normal week, where the workday starts with Monday and ends with Saturday and Sunday \u2013 the Weekend, a sort of mini-vacation, longer if a Monday holiday makes it a \u201clong weekend\u201d.&nbsp; So in that sense my year starts with the work months and ends with vacation.&nbsp; Just like the weekend, summer vacation is not really a time apart from the world, it is more just a<\/font><font face=\"Sylfaen\"> change in occupation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Sylfaen\">My fiber year is different.&nbsp; It starts in June with the Fiber Frolic in Windsor and ends in September with the Common Ground Fair.&nbsp; I had briefly thought that it would end with the Spa in Portland at the Double Tree Inn, but sadly they moved that to Freeport and used up 2 hotels for the spinning \/ knitting in public.&nbsp; That was too much for me.&nbsp; Wandering around one place seeing what people were up to was fun, but 2 boggled my mind.&nbsp; Besides, who can schlep their stuff around two hotels, up streets, across parking lots in February in Maine, for godsake?&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Sylfaen\">So instead my fiber year ends in February with the Newport Spin-in with the busy hum of wheels and voices, the Yankee Swap, and (of course) the stash enhancement.&nbsp; Each year we plead with each other \u201cDon\u2019t let me buy\u201d but no one wants the guilt of depriving someone else of a potential treasure.&nbsp; We live, after all, in the state that brought you \u201cI should\u2019ve bought it when I saw it at Marden\u2019s.\u201d&nbsp; We know how to carpe diem.&nbsp; There is a brief drought after the Spin-in while we save up for a blow out at the next years beginning.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To begin with, I am a teacher in public schools.&nbsp; As such my year starts in September and ends in August.&nbsp; This cleverly mimics a normal week, where the workday starts with Monday and ends with Saturday and Sunday \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/2010\/09\/my-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Gnw9-g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeberrywoods.com\/FiberEtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}