{"id":597,"date":"2016-01-23T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T06:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=597"},"modified":"2016-01-23T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T06:04:43","slug":"almost-ready-for-kilimanjaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2016\/01\/almost-ready-for-kilimanjaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost ready for Kilimanjaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve barely taken any photos since we landed in the Maldives 3 weeks ago. It looks just like every photo you see on the internet, absolutely no need to Photoshop. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wp-1453615021864.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1453615021864\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wp-1453615021864.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately it&#8217;s been ridiculously humid, so knitting had been minimal. I did start a pair of socks as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/discuss\/cookie-a-sock-club\/topics\">catch up kal on Ravelry<\/a>, but have barely made it past the cuff (a little farther than in the photo). I&#8217;m using the fabulous Plucky Knitter Plucky Feet yarn from the 2014 club and the Reykjavik pattern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wp-1453614055306.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1453614055306\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wp-1453614055306.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I forced Mr. A to take some scuba diving courses and we&#8217;ve spent the past 2 weeks on a boat diving multiple times every day. It was amazing! Lots of Manta rays, eels, sharks (seriously tons, but the super cute ones not the scary ones I swear), octopi, stingrays, coral and tiny amazing creatures of the sea like nudibranches which I&#8217;m getting better at spotting. The crew on the boat was amazing, including our Maldivian Rastafarian dive master Jahvid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wp-1453614423821.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1453614423821\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wp-1453614423821.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we are back on land but Mr. A swears the ground keeps rocking. I finished a hat on the plane ride over weeks ago but just seamed in the ends in time to leave for Kilimanjaro tomorrow. I hope it makes it to the summit! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wp-1453614643466.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1453614643466\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wp-1453614643466.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to make progress on the socks and finish then in time to wear on the summit. Tomorrow we have a very long layover in Dubai and are planning to head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burj_Khalifa\">Burj Khalifa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve barely taken any photos since we landed in the Maldives 3 weeks ago. It looks just like every photo you see on the internet, absolutely no need to Photoshop. Unfortunately it&#8217;s been ridiculously humid, so knitting had been minimal. I did start a pair of socks as part of the catch up kal on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}