{"id":202,"date":"2008-10-25T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/?p=202"},"modified":"2013-10-28T19:32:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T23:32:45","slug":"they-said-it-couldnt-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/2008\/10\/25\/they-said-it-couldnt-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"They Said It Couldn't Be Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Elle and I hate crafts. I really, really hate them. I’ve never knitted, scrap booked, decoupaged, stamped, painted pottery\u00a0or made crocheted hats out of beer cans. Swear to God! I find nothing soothing in any of these activities. I know lots of people love <\/strong>crafts and that’s great for them but not me. Now you’d think that a craft hater would buy their children’s Halloween costumes, but you’d be wrong. No I punish myself every stinking year by making their costumes. Since I have children ranging in age from 24 to 6, it’s not something new. I’ve been making 1 to 3 Halloween costumes every year for 24 years. Not only do I make them, I wait until the last possible day to even start. Why do I do it? For the kids? No, because I’m insane! This year my costume nemesis was Yoshi from the Mario games.\u00a0 Now J-Man loves Yoshi, he has 3 stuffed toy Yoshis and is a Yoshi expert. Last night was the big Halloween Parade in town so all costumes had to be done by 5:30 last night to give us enough time to get to the parade. I did it. I’m sitting here typing with hot glue gun burned fingers, but I did it. I have one thrilled little boy who had a blast at the parade and put his costume back on this morning as soon as he got up. I guess it’s worth it, but it’s sheer hell for me getting there.<\/p>\n

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My name is Elle and I hate crafts. I really, really hate them. I’ve never knitted, scrap booked, decoupaged, stamped, painted pottery\u00a0or made crocheted hats out of beer cans. Swear to God! I find nothing soothing in any of these activities. I know lots of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[13,14,17],"tags":[1158,1642,1913,1914],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ISGQ-3g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7880,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/7880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}