{"id":3243,"date":"2012-01-02T17:35:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T01:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2012-01-02T17:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T01:45:14","slug":"better-a-little-doll-maybe-then-no-memory-of-faery-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/01\/02\/better-a-little-doll-maybe-then-no-memory-of-faery-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Better a little doll maybe, then no memory of faery at all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Better a little doll maybe, then no memory of faery at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fairy Queen tells Smith this in Tolkien&#8217;s short story Smith of Wooten Major and she&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter has all manner of modern toys at her disposal, but she gets by far the most milage out of her toy dragon\/dinosaur &#8220;Spikey&#8221;. This, despite the fact that she has declared that &#8220;dragons aren&#8217;t real&#8221; and &#8220;dinosaurs are all dead&#8221;, this one is probably the most alive thing in our house. He hides, he seeks, he fights knights, Orcas, and other monsters. He even &#8220;roars&#8221; the melody to &#8220;Oh Come All Ye Faithful&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3247 lazyload\" title=\"spikey\" data-src=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikey.jpg 350w, http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikey-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikey-300x300.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 350px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 350\/350;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today though, he was put in a precarious position when a high toss landed him on a light-fixture shelf near the ceiling of the mall. Fortunately, I was able to get Spikey down by using a long pole used to prop up one of the fake trees, while standing on a chair, and tying my jacket to the pole as a &#8220;hook&#8221;. Whew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Better a little doll maybe, then no memory of faery at all.&#8221; The Fairy Queen tells Smith this in Tolkien&#8217;s short story Smith of Wooten Major and she&#8217;s right. My daughter has all manner of modern toys at her disposal, but she gets by far the most milage out of her toy dragon\/dinosaur &#8220;Spikey&#8221;. This, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/01\/02\/better-a-little-doll-maybe-then-no-memory-of-faery-at-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Better a little doll maybe, then no memory of faery at all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}