{"id":713,"date":"2009-01-16T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-time\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:36:07","slug":"word-of-the-day-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span class=352385000-16012009>&#8221; We must  understand how the past affects us, we should keep the present full of rich  satisfying experiences, and we should devote some energy each day to building  for the future&#8230;so too should we consider the whole of our time when deciding  how to spend our lives.&#8221;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span  class=352385000-16012009><\/span><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span  class=352385000-16012009>While&nbsp;the&nbsp;quote&nbsp;obviously applies to  saving money, and taking care of your health, buying fabric sprang immediately  to mind.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span  class=352385000-16012009><\/span><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span class=352385000-16012009>Sometimes I go  through a bin of fabric and wonder why I bought that particular  yardage.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span  class=352385000-16012009><\/span><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span class=352385000-16012009>Sometimes I look  at the fabric that I have and think that it is a hassle, because it is somewhat  disorganized and I can&#8217;t always find what I want\/need.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span  class=352385000-16012009><\/span><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span class=352385000-16012009>Often I look at  fabric ads in magazines and think about what I could make with that fabric. Time  factors into tthose dreams, because I would need time to go buy the fabric and  make the project. It also makes me think of building up my dreams as well as my  stash of fabric when acquiring new colors and patterns.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span  class=352385000-16012009><\/span><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span class=352385000-16012009>Buying fabric is  about the past, present and the fugure, because it reflects who I was and the  dreams I had when I bought the older fabric. It also reflects who I am in this  time and space and the projects I am working on now. I am also building dreams  and projects for the future. <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span  class=352385000-16012009><\/span><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Georgia size=2><span class=352385000-16012009>I want to  incorporate those fabrics from the past into current projects even if I use it  in some way that wasn&#8217;t the original intention. I don&#8217;t want them to be  discarded, because they are not me now.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; We must understand how the past affects us, we should keep the present full of rich satisfying experiences, and we should devote some energy each day to building for the future&#8230;so too should we consider the whole of our time when deciding how to spend our lives.&#8221; &nbsp; While&nbsp;the&nbsp;quote&nbsp;obviously applies to saving money, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":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":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-word-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}