{"id":582,"date":"2015-09-19T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2015-09-19T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T17:00:52","slug":"how-to-buy-a-sewing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"How to buy a sewing machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked this question a lot.<br \/>\nI found a few good articles on the subject. I encourage you to read them \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nI also think of it like buying a car (as at least one article states) &#8211; they (almost) all get you from here to there, but some more easily than others and some in a stripped down versiona and some in luxury.<br \/>\nThese will help you think and decipher.<br \/>\nI DO very much encourage buying local and finding out which shops work on what models.<br \/>\nBuying cheap and on line is tempting, but if there is no one to repair it or it&#8217;s super cheap, you loose in the long run&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/sewing-machines\/buying-guide.htm<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/article\/tips-for-buying-a-sewing-machine<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/crafts.tutsplus.com\/articles\/a-buyers-guide-to-your-first-sewing-machine&#8211;craft-12119<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked this question a lot. I found a few good articles on the subject. I encourage you to read them \ud83d\ude42 I also think of it like buying a car (as at least one article states) &#8211; they (almost) all get you from here to there, but some more easily than others and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janetkile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}