{"id":219,"date":"2008-02-07T12:29:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T17:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/year-of-the-rat\/"},"modified":"2012-04-21T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T19:13:45","slug":"year-of-the-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/year-of-the-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"year of the rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Chinese New Year! The upcoming year is the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac, so I decided to design a rat of my own (thanks Jean for the suggestion). I know this won&#8217;t be to everyone&#8217;s taste, but try not to scream too much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"\/blog\/images\/rat1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/rat1_sml.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"crocheted rat by planetjune\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Click for larger image<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My sister Dawn says he looks just like an agouti rat. He&#8217;ll be making his way to the UK soon to live with her. She used to have a pet rat, so I know they are actually friendly and intelligent animals.<\/p>\n<p>Kung Hei Fat Choi! Happy Year of the Rat!<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; If you&#8217;d like to crochet your own Fuzzy Rat, the pattern will be available shortly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Looking for the pattern? You can find the <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=12&#038;products_id=13\">Fuzzy Rat crochet pattern<\/a> in my shop.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Chinese New Year! The upcoming year is the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac, so I decided to design a rat of my own (thanks Jean for the suggestion). I know this won&#8217;t be to everyone&#8217;s taste, but try not to scream too much&#8230; Click for larger image My sister Dawn says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}