{"id":42,"date":"2006-08-14T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/2006\/13\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T07:12:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T14:12:29","slug":"13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/2006\/13\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Brooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Posted pictures --><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\t\tHere is the last craft we did in the Stroyan&#8217;s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.  We made brooms!<\/p>\n<p>The handles were each hand chosen and worked by the children.  (I didn&#8217;t make a broom this time).  The broom is made out of alfalfa stems &#8211; we wracked our brains for good materials and couldn&#8217;t find any.  Unfortunately, they shrink a lot when dry.  For some reason I thought I would be able to get them tighter when wet but I had to re-tie my son&#8217;s broom and I suspect others did also.  Finally, we stamped and embossed the name of the broom on the handles.<\/p>\n<p>My son now rides around the house constantly and wants to figure out some &#8220;muggle broom tricks&#8221;.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/lstroyan\/pic\/0000abw3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/lstroyan\/pic\/0000abw3\/s640x480\" alt=\"brooms\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" width=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Posted pictures --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the last craft we did in the Stroyan&#8217;s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. We made brooms! The handles were each hand chosen and worked by the children. (I didn&#8217;t make a broom this time). The broom is made out of alfalfa stems &#8211; we wracked our brains for good materials and couldn&#8217;t find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-crafts","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}