{"id":2814,"date":"2012-12-18T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T11:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2012-12-18T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T11:52:59","slug":"366-unusual-things-days-349-353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2814","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things:  days 349 &#8211; 353"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>14th Dec &#8211; One of my students said today after our last lesson, &#8216;I&#8217;ll miss you&#8217;.\u00a0 This is unusual for me.<\/p>\n<p>15th Dec &#8211; Watched a six-year old write in cursive, something most older children and young adults can&#8217;t do these days.<\/p>\n<p>16th Dec &#8211; Saw the word &#8216;themself&#8217; in the latest translation of <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>.\u00a0 If the translator wrote it (eek!) then why didn&#8217;t the editor fix it?\u00a0 Do they both think it&#8217;s a word?<\/p>\n<p>17th Dec &#8211; Taught a student last week how to crochet triangles and today I was going to teach her how to join them together.\u00a0 But she turned up with a whole bag made from them.\u00a0 Left me standing in the dust cloud.<\/p>\n<p>18th Dec &#8211; Saw some bugs that like only white things (they used to gather in hundreds on my white washing).\u00a0 Last night they were asleep in a huddle on my white hydrangea.\u00a0 Dreaming of a white Christmas&#8230;\u00a0 This morning they were awake and working.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2817\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/18\/366-unusual-things-days-349-353\/hydrangea-bugs-sleeping\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2817 \" alt=\"Bugs asleep in the hydrangea flower\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea-bugs-sleeping.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea-bugs-sleeping.jpg 3072w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea-bugs-sleeping-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea-bugs-sleeping-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea-bugs-sleeping-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea-bugs-sleeping-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bugs asleep in the hydrangea flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2819\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/18\/366-unusual-things-days-349-353\/hydrangea_bugs_awake\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2819 \" alt=\"Bugs awake and working on hydrangea flower\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea_bugs_awake.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea_bugs_awake.jpg 3072w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea_bugs_awake-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea_bugs_awake-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea_bugs_awake-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hydrangea_bugs_awake-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bugs awake and working on hydrangea flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14th Dec &#8211; One of my students said today after our last lesson, &#8216;I&#8217;ll miss you&#8217;.\u00a0 This is unusual for me. 15th Dec &#8211; Watched a six-year old write in cursive, something most older children and young adults can&#8217;t do these days. 16th Dec &#8211; Saw the word &#8216;themself&#8217; in the latest translation of Les &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;366 unusual things:  days 349 &#8211; 353&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[18,7,8,22,23,213],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-18","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday2012","tag-unusual","tag-white-hydrangea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}