{"id":405,"date":"2011-02-09T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T08:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=405"},"modified":"2011-02-09T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T08:33:34","slug":"knitting-sane-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2011\/02\/knitting-sane-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting myself sane during a revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would like to explain why I haven’t been posting.<\/p>\n

I am Egyptian. \u00a0And if you follow the world news you will know that right now the Egyptians have revolted against 30 (some would say 60) years of tyranny and dictatorship.<\/p>\n

I don’t live in Egypt but almost all of my family and loved ones are there.<\/p>\n

Egypt is also my home, because home is where the heart is.<\/p>\n

I also know that most of my readers are not in the Middle East. \u00a0But this is a story of humanity and dignity where all regional barriers fall.<\/p>\n

On the 25th of January, Egyptians took to the streets in\u00a0unprecedented\u00a0numbers calling for change. Police replied with tear gas and rubber bullets. \u00a0Many were injured and killed, so they took to the streets again on Friday. \u00a0Midday, police forces pulled out and totally dissapeared from the streets, but not before they opened the jails and let the thugs out so that chaos would run rampant in the streets. \u00a0By the end of the day the army was on the streets and some order was restored. \u00a0People were forming neighborhood watch groups to protect their streets. \u00a0And that has been the state since then, mega protests (millions are marching), people protecting homes and a government that is stubborn and won’t bend to the will of the people.<\/p>\n

This is the short story, I am sure if you want to learn more you can google the news.<\/p>\n

But this is not a political blog, this is a craft blog. \u00a0And while I was sitting on the edge of my seat and glued to twitter and facebook trying to get as much info as I could even though they unplugged the internet in Egypt from Thursday night until Wednesday there were still some brave souls who were updating tweets by calling friends out of Egypt. \u00a0They also switched off mobile networks for 3 days. \u00a0Still information was scarce and rumors were plenty.<\/p>\n

Amidst all this, I cast a shawl, which I am calling the revolution shawl because every time I look at it I remember the day the Egyptians decided to say NO. \u00a0In Egypt’s history this is the first real revolution.<\/p>\n

Knitting is slow and deliberate \u00a0it was the only thing that kept me sane while I watched young men and women fighting and dieing for \u00a0a cause.<\/p>\n

\"Shawl\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I also did a little bit of embroidery
\n\"Reversible<\/a><\/p>\n

Unicorns are symbolic for miracles in my head and I am so very much wishing for a miracle of some kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would like to explain why I haven’t been posting. I am Egyptian. \u00a0And if you follow the world news you will know that right now the Egyptians have revolted against 30 (some would say 60) years of tyranny and dictatorship. I don’t live in Egypt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-6x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}