{"id":623,"date":"2008-04-17T07:34:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T11:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2008-05-01T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:06:44","slug":"harry-potter-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hpyarn.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Owl Yarn' \/>Opal is releasing a line of &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; sock yarn.  According to their importer the yarns will be released in September to coincide with the release of the <I>Half-Blood Prince<\/I> movie.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than any &#8220;house color&#8221; yarns, the yarn palettes all appear to be based on characters from the movie.  The one with the Hedwig label is sort of, um, owl-colored, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opalsockyarn.com\/\">Opal site<\/a> includes a list of yarn shops which carry their products.  And here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclumencia.com.br\/galeria\/thumbnails.php?album=162\">photo gallery<\/a> of promotional images for the product.<\/p>\n<p>The palettes are pretty, but I don&#8217;t think you could expect the casual observer to immediately discern the yarn&#8217;s significance.  I suppose you could use the yarn for one of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Charmed-Knits-Projects-Harry-Potter\/dp\/0470067314\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1208278148&#038;sr=8-5\">Charmed Knits<\/a> projects and completely embrace your inner HP geek.  If you do, don&#8217;t tell me about it; I&#8217;d prefer to maintain a few illusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opal is releasing a line of &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; sock yarn. According to their importer the yarns will be released in September to coincide with the release of the Half-Blood Prince movie. Rather than any &#8220;house color&#8221; yarns, the yarn palettes all appear to be based on characters from the movie. The one with the Hedwig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}