{"id":277,"date":"2008-11-10T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=277"},"modified":"2008-11-10T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T15:10:23","slug":"disasterof-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/disasterof-sorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster…of sorts…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I spent two and a half hours creating felt pieces for Eric Carle’s The Very Quiet Cricket<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 I went to bed at 10:30 feeling pretty darn proud of myself, because they turned out really well.<\/p>\n

But this morning, when I tried to pack up\u00c2\u00a0the felt pieces for travel to the library, I discovered a minor crisis.\u00c2\u00a0 A bit of a disaster.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite having had all night to dry, the glue was still fresh and wet this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever tried to put a delicate felt praying mantis on the board when the glue is still wet?\u00c2\u00a0 Not a pretty sight.<\/p>\n

I tried to manage the crisis by putting each felt figure on a fresh rectangle of felt, to help hold it together, and then I used parchment paper as a protective layer between each piece and its neighbor.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The real challenge will come this morning as I try to tell the story while treating each piece as if it’s about to fall apart.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

*\u00c2\u00a0 (I know that someone is bound to lecture me now on the benefits of a hot glue gun, but there are a lot of reasons why I prefer Elmer’s white glue to a glue gun.\u00c2\u00a0 And up till now, it’s never been an issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I spent two and a half hours creating felt pieces for Eric Carle’s The Very Quiet Cricket.\u00c2\u00a0 I went to bed at 10:30 feeling pretty darn proud of myself, because they turned out really well. But this morning, when I tried to pack up\u00c2\u00a0the felt pieces for travel to the library, I discovered … Continue reading Disaster…of sorts…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spare-time","category-storytime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}