{"id":42214,"date":"2017-04-30T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/?p=42214"},"modified":"2021-10-23T17:58:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T21:58:01","slug":"superheros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/superheros\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Superheros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned before, I love knitting\/crocheting\/yarn memorabilia. I came across these images some time ago and I thought they were funny. I love the juxtaposition of the superhero knitting. It reminds me of Popeye and his spinach. What superhero does knitting or crocheting bring out in you?<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-42214 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Heroes-490x600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"knitting superheroes\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Heroes-490x600.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Heroes-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Heroes-768x941.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Heroes-624x764.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Heroes.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Artwork by\u00a0Karl James Mountford<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned before, I love knitting\/crocheting\/yarn memorabilia. I came across these images some time ago and I thought they were funny. I love the juxtaposition of the superhero knitting. It reminds me of Popeye and his spinach. What superhero does knitting or crocheting bring out in you? Artwork by\u00a0Karl James Mountford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[7018,7017,7019],"class_list":["post-42214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lion-staff","category-misc","tag-knitting-memorabilia","tag-knitting-superheroes","tag-yarn-memorabilia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Knitting Superheros | Lion Brand Notebook<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I love knitting\/crocheting\/yarn memorabilia. 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