{"id":225,"date":"2009-10-12T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2009-10-09T08:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:51:53","slug":"do-you-have-a-quilt-crafted-by-your-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/do-you-have-a-quilt-crafted-by-your-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have a Quilt Crafted by Your Ancestors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_285\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285\" title=\"Hand-Stitched Quilt by Maggie Washington\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hand-stitched-quilt-by-maggie-washington-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"Hand-Stitched Quilt by Maggie Washington\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hand-stitched-quilt-by-maggie-washington-300x282.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hand-stitched-quilt-by-maggie-washington-1024x962.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hand-stitched-quilt-by-maggie-washington.jpg 1358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hand-Stitched Quilt by Maggie Washington<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So many of us have quilts or other crafts made by our ancestors.\u00a0 Hopefully we all display them carefully in our homes.\u00a0 But these pieces have stories that need to be preserved as well.\u00a0 This quilt was sewn by my great-aunt Maggie Washington. She made it for me as a birthday gift when she was in her nineties. Aunt Mag learned to make quilts from her mother when she was a small girl and often gave these special gifts to family members and friends on specials occasions such birthdays, weddings and Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:john@johnbakerbooks.com\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many of us have quilts or other crafts made by our ancestors.\u00a0 Hopefully we all display them carefully in our homes.\u00a0 But these pieces have stories that need to be preserved as well.\u00a0 This quilt was sewn by my great-aunt Maggie Washington. She made it for me as a birthday gift when she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,21,18,22],"tags":[131,129,127,133,130,128,284,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}