{"id":27501,"date":"2025-12-28T18:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27501"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:25:32","slug":"the-unexpected-use-of-my-old-sewing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27501","title":{"rendered":"The unexpected use of my old sewing machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My mother-in-law, Martha, was a good woman, I truly believe that. But she had this one little quirk: an insatiable curiosity about things that weren\u2019t her business. A polite person might call it \u201ctaking an interest\u201d; I called it good old-fashioned snooping. She\u2019d been staying with us for two weeks, and already I felt like I needed a full-time security guard for my own home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I work as a graphic designer, mostly from home, but Tuesdays I have to go into the city office for team meetings. It\u2019s a good hour-long commute, which means I\u2019m out of the house for most of the day. Every Tuesday, without fail, I lock the master bedroom door before I leave. It\u2019s not that I keep any deep, dark secrets in there, but I need a space that\u2019s just mine, away from Martha\u2019s eagle eyes and endless commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother-in-law, Martha, was a good woman, I truly believe that. But she had this one little quirk: an insatiable curiosity about things that weren\u2019t her business&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":340,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27503,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27501\/revisions\/27503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}