{"id":53,"date":"2013-02-18T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-02-18T11:58:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:58:42","slug":"sew-a-pickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Sew a pickle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you like pickles, but you don&#8217;t like <em>eating<\/em> pickles. Did you know there was such a thing as a Christmas Pickle? We did not, and we also don&#8217;t know why someone (OLIVER) waited until February to bring it up.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, it is a German tradition to hang a pickle ornament in the Christmas tree and the first kid to spot it gets an extra present. Now you know.<\/p>\n<p>(Maybe mention this to your parentals and start an extra gift tradition!)<\/p>\n<p>We, the League of Pickle Makers, think that anytime is the right time for a pickle decoration. You don&#8217;t have to celebrate Christmas OR wait until December. Present giving is optional. But if you&#8217;re good with a needle and thread like Bean is, this might be the project for you.<\/p>\n<p>Directions <a title=\"pickle ornament tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/whileshenaps.typepad.com\/Pickle%20Ornament%20Pattern.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. If you make one (or any other epically decorative pickle), send us a pic at cat vs dude at gmail . com (without the spaces, obvs).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pickle-ornament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54\" alt=\"pickle ornament\" src=\"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pickle-ornament.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pickle-ornament.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pickle-ornament-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pickle-ornament-743x1024.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you like pickles, but you don&#8217;t like eating pickles. Did you know there was such a thing as a Christmas Pickle? We did not, and we also don&#8217;t know why someone (OLIVER) waited until February to bring it up. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/?p=53\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty","category-not-so-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picklesforever.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}