{"id":22900,"date":"2012-09-06T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=22900"},"modified":"2012-09-06T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:45:14","slug":"pingpong-and-pacman-crochet-placemats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/tabletop\/table-linens\/pingpong-and-pacman-crochet-placemats\/","title":{"rendered":"Pingpong and Pacman Crochet Placemats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, what the heck, if you&#8217;re going to allow trinkets in your home, you might as well allow some crochet placemats. Of course, these reference the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atari\" target=\"_blank\" >Atari<\/a> and arcade games of yore, with Pacman, Pingpong, Space Invaders, and Breakout patterns, which makes them even better (or nerdier, depending on your point of view) than traditional crochet placemats. That said, just typing &#8216;crochet&#8217; two times in one paragraph is making me itchy.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDesigned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alessandrozambelli.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Alessandro Zambelli<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pacman\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/Crochet-Pacman-placemat.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.selettinorthamerica.com\/productDetails-en-507.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Pacman crochet tablemat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also available:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.selettinorthamerica.com\/productDetails-en-509.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Pingpong crochet tablemat<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.selettinorthamerica.com\/productDetails-en-510.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Space Invaders crochet tablemat<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.selettinorthamerica.com\/productDetails-en-508.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Breakout crochet tablemat<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, what the heck, if you&#8217;re going to allow trinkets in your home, you might as well allow some crochet placemats. Of course, these reference the Atari and arcade games of yore, with Pacman, Pingpong, Space Invaders, and Breakout patterns, which makes them even better (or nerdier, depending on your point of view) than traditional [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,116,128],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/Crochet-Pacman-placemat.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}