{"id":561,"date":"2006-11-03T13:54:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/11\/03\/making-a-difference\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:54:30","slug":"making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Making a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekking.com\/\">Jessica<\/a> got me hooked on a crafting blog a while back and I&#8217;ve been reading it and several others like it. It&#8217;s fun to see what other people are making and what&#8217;s out there. Several of the blogs I read are European and there&#8217;s even one from Australia so it&#8217;s always interesting to see what&#8217;s trendy elsewhere and what craft is popular where. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whipup.net\">Whipup.net<\/a> is the one that Jessica originally showed me and they have just completed a couple of posts on teaching prisoners in Britain to quilt. I found it both interesting to see how people are using their crafting abilities to make people&#8217;s lives better and incredibly moving to hear the prisoners talk about their new skills.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the two part series <a href=\"http:\/\/whipup.net\/2006\/10\/23\/handmade-in-prison-part-one-the-teachers\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/whipup.net\/2006\/11\/03\/handmade-in-prison-part-two-the-prisoners\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica got me hooked on a crafting blog a while back and I&#8217;ve been reading it and several others like it. It&#8217;s fun to see what other people are making and what&#8217;s out there. Several of the blogs I read are European and there&#8217;s even one from Australia so it&#8217;s always interesting to see what&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making a Difference<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}