{"id":1896,"date":"2011-12-03T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T02:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-12-03\/1896"},"modified":"2011-12-03T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T02:20:36","slug":"what-knots-should-i-teach-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-12-03\/1896","title":{"rendered":"What Knots Should I Teach My Son?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1896'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Other than tying my shoes and <span class='nobr'>a necktie,<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I don't<\/span> often come across <span class='nobr'>a\nsituation<\/span> where <span class='nobr'>I need<\/span> to tie <span class='nobr'>a knot,<\/span> but when <span class='nobr'>I do,<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I usually<\/span> feel stupid\ntrying to come up with something appropriate. <span class='nobr'>The one exception<\/span> is when <span class='nobr'>I\nwant<\/span> to cinch something tight (<span class='nobr'>a clothesline,<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a tent<\/span> guy string) and keep\nit tight, because <span class='nobr'>I happen<\/span> to know how to tie the-most excellent <a\nhref='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tautline_hitch'>tautline hitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>But mostly I feel stupid when it comes to knots, and I'd like to not pass\nthat on to nine-year-old Anthony, so I'd like to teach him (and myself) <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> useful knots.<\/p>\n\n<p>Suggestions on which knots to learn, and why?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other than tying my shoes and a necktie, I don't often come across a situation where I need to tie a knot, but when I do, I usually feel stupid trying to come up with something appropriate. The one exception is when I want to cinch something tight (a clothesline, a tent guy string) and keep it tight, because I happen to know how to tie the-most excellent tautline hitch.<\/p> <p>But mostly I feel stupid when it comes to knots, and I'd like to not pass that on to nine-year-old Anthony, so I'd like to teach him (and myself) a [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}