{"id":687,"date":"2008-07-02T22:46:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T03:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2008-07-02T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T03:46:54","slug":"like-totally-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20080702-687.htm","title":{"rendered":"Like, totally random"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago the word <em>random<\/em> came into popular usage.  It was one of those interchangeable words that could be used to describe anything you didn&#8217;t have the vocabulary to say in a meaningful way.  And, in hundreds of &#8220;get to know you&#8221; activities in which people were asked to share something about themselves that no one else in the group knows, girls were sharing &#8220;I&#8217;m, like, totally random.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am working on a quilt that&#8217;s, like, totally random.  Okay, so it&#8217;s not totally random.  I chose the fabrics I would use before I started.  But then&#8211;the randomness began.  I cut strips of fabric and stuck them all in a plastic bag.  Then I went around to my friends and family and asked them to pull a couple of strips from the bag without looking.  I sewed those two strips together, and then asked another person to pick two strips&#8211;and so on.  Then I cut the strips into parallelograms, stuck those into a bag and picked two at a time without looking.  I sewed the two parallelograms together.  Once all the parallelograms had been paired, I stuck them in a bag&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think you get the picture.  A random quilt.  A truly random quilt.  Not &#8220;designed&#8221; at all.  Today I finished all my strips and started piecing the strips together.  For the first time, I&#8217;m getting a glimpse of what my final product may look like.  And, in this case, random is pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you say?<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20080702-1.jpg\" alt=\"picture of quilt\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago the word random came into popular usage. It was one of those interchangeable words that could be used to describe anything you didn&#8217;t have the vocabulary to say in a meaningful way. And, in hundreds of &#8220;get to know you&#8221; activities in which people were asked to share something about themselves &#8230; <a title=\"Like, totally random\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20080702-687.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Like, totally random<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}