{"id":768,"date":"2012-02-18T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=768"},"modified":"2012-02-18T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T05:05:31","slug":"love-my-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Love My Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wpid-DSC03212-2012-02-18-19-50.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC03212-2012-02-18-19-50.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Anchorage Modern Quilt Guild challenged the members to enter a quilt for the <a href=\"http:\/\/callforentriesmodernquilts.com\/\">Modern Quilt Guild Showcase<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wpid-DSC03275-2012-02-18-19-50.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC03275-2012-02-18-19-50.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"436\"\/><\/p>\n<p>During the long winter in Alaska, my blue bicycle with green wheels sits in the garage unused. Every time I saw my bike, I&#8217;d wish for spring to come soon. It finally occurred to me that I could bring my bike inside by making it the star of simple quilt. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wpid-DSC03208-2012-02-18-19-50.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC03208-2012-02-18-19-50.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Raw edge appliqu\u00c3\u00a9 allowed the bike design to have a frayed or &#8216;rough around the edges&#8217; reminding me how my actual bike looks when we return from riding adventure about town.  I added the basket of flowers as a wish for spring to come a bit sooner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wpid-DSC03199-2012-02-18-19-50.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC03199-2012-02-18-19-50.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"713\"\/><br \/>\nLove My Bike (40\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 56\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anchorage Modern Quilt Guild challenged the members to enter a quilt for the Modern Quilt Guild Showcase. During the long winter in Alaska, my blue bicycle with green wheels sits in the garage unused. Every time I saw my bike, I&#8217;d wish for spring to come soon. It finally occurred to me that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}