{"id":3606,"date":"2015-06-30T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2015-06-30T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T18:01:16","slug":"summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/?p=3606","title":{"rendered":"Summertime &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know the title reference, you should definitely look it up. It&#8217;s the song Summertime, composed by George Gershwin, and one of the most covered songs in music history. Although some 30,000+ musicians have covered this song, it is probably most recognized when being sung by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald. Okay, with that being said, I humbly added a little knitting twist to it! Reaching out to my knitting community (and anyone else that likes good music) to see if there&#8217;s anyone out there with a good singing voice that would want to record this version for me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2bigf337aU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Knitting time,<\/p>\n<p>And the pattern is easy<\/p>\n<p>Your wool is merino,<\/p>\n<p>And some cashmere as well<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The needles are clickin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And the end is nigh,<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t fret my sweetheart<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no itch to tell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of these mornings<\/p>\n<p>This sweater will be finished<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll slip it on<\/p>\n<p>And let out a big sigh<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll keep a knittin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fast as my needles will let me<\/p>\n<p>So you just have to wait<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Till it&#8217;s all done<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your seams are all flat<\/p>\n<p>And your decreases full fashioned<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t fret my dear sweetheart<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gonna look all right!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Summertime<\/p>\n<p>And the knitting is easy<\/p>\n<p>The cables are scrumptious<\/p>\n<p>And the colors are bright<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hugzzz \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know the title reference, you should definitely look it up. It&#8217;s the song Summertime, composed by George Gershwin, and one of the most covered songs in music history. Although some 30,000+ musicians have covered this song, it is probably most recognized when being sung by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald. Okay, with that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[969,952],"class_list":{"0":"post-3606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-just-knitting","7":"tag-knitting","8":"tag-summertime","9":"pmpro-has-access","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNDS0-Wa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ittakesballstoknit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}