{"id":276,"date":"2005-10-09T21:21:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T01:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=276"},"modified":"2005-10-09T21:21:28","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T01:21:28","slug":"nothing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"nothing to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re spending tonight and tomorrow night in Leominster, Mass., the town close to where our friends Sam and Alexis are getting married tomorrow evening. It feels strange to lie here in the hotel room without anything pressing to do because I have spent the last six months not having spare time.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I sat down, there was a knitting project to work on. And more often than not, I did. 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