{"id":226,"date":"2021-10-15T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2021-10-15T21:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T21:40:19","slug":"gus-the-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/15\/gus-the-octopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Gus the Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My daughter, Korinna, gave me a sea life crochet patterns book for Christmas. The first critter I chose from this collection was the octopus. He just looks like a Gus to me. I made the red one with yarn from my stash. I posted a picture of it on Facebook and my friend, Lara, commissioned one in green for her niece who is studying to be a marine biologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233815.jpg\" alt=\"crocheted sea creatures book\" class=\"wp-image-292\" width=\"340\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233815.jpg 679w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233815-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233815-465x548.jpg 465w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233815-424x500.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><figcaption>Crocheted Sea Creatures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233429-841x1024.jpg\" alt=\"gus the octopus\" data-id=\"87\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233429.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/20210106_233429\/\" class=\"wp-image-87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233429-841x1024.jpg 841w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233429-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233429-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233429-1261x1536.jpg 1261w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233429-1682x2048.jpg 1682w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233429-222x270.jpg 222w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233429.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Gus the Octopus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"953\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233540-953x1024.jpg\" alt=\"gus the octopus\" data-id=\"88\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233540.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/20210106_233540\/\" class=\"wp-image-88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233540-953x1024.jpg 953w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233540-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233540-768x826.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233540-1429x1536.jpg 1429w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233540-1905x2048.jpg 1905w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233540-251x270.jpg 251w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210106_233540.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Gus the Octopus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184221.jpg\" alt=\"gus the octopus\" data-id=\"227\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184221.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/?attachment_id=227\" class=\"wp-image-227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184221.jpg 800w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184221-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184221-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184221-465x410.jpg 465w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184221-567x500.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Gus the Octopus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184235.jpg\" alt=\"gus the octopus\" data-id=\"228\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184235.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/?attachment_id=228\" class=\"wp-image-228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184235.jpg 800w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184235-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184235-768x740.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184235-465x448.jpg 465w, https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210125_184235-519x500.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Gus the Octopus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter, Korinna, gave me a sea life crochet patterns book for Christmas. The first critter I chose from this collection was the octopus. He just looks like a Gus to me. I made the red one with yarn from my stash. I posted a picture of it on Facebook and my friend, Lara, commissioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-available","category-babies","category-stuffies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochet.romere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}