{"id":5,"date":"2010-08-01T19:32:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=5"},"modified":"2010-08-01T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T16:42:50","slug":"why-a-new-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2010\/08\/why-a-new-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a new blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/blog\/\">Chocolate Mints in a Jar<\/a> since August 2006. \u00a0Just like my life has changed so has my blogging and I think it is now time to separate my interests. \u00a0I wanted a space to indulge in my own creative fantasies and interests. \u00a0I don&#8217;t want to alienate my readers so I decided to split my blog into two separate ones. \u00a0The C stands for crafts in general, although at the moment it could stand for crochet, but who knows what might come up in the future. \u00a0I&#8217;ve always enjoyed making stuff. \u00a0Throughout my childhood I was fascinated with things like origami,\u00a0macram\u00e9, cartooning, photography and lots of other stuff too.<\/p>\n<p>I had learned to crochet when I was in school but it never really took off until last year when I decided I wanted to make amigurumi characters and bags. \u00a0I went out, bought a bunch of hooks and lots of bad yarn and started out. \u00a0I am glad I did. \u00a0I had no idea what I was doing but that rarely matters to me, I always know that eventually I will get there.<\/p>\n<p>Just like this blog, I don&#8217;t have a definite idea of how I am going to go about doing it, but I am sure that it will turn out great, it is a WIP (work in progress) just like everything else in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging at Chocolate Mints in a Jar since August 2006. \u00a0Just like my life has changed so has my blogging and I think it is now time to separate my interests. \u00a0I wanted a space to indulge in my own creative fantasies and interests.&hellip;<\/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-5","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-5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}