{"id":939,"date":"2024-08-25T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T11:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=939"},"modified":"2024-08-25T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T11:27:19","slug":"contemporary-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/25\/contemporary-fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem14.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem14.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem14-300x293.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem14-768x750.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I dislike contemporary fairy tales\u2026<br>Not the folk tales they are often based on &#8211;<br>they were the tools for understanding the world,<br>and true to it.<br>They were about love and indifference,<br>loyalty and betrayal,<br>blood, sweat, tears, joy and laughter.<br>They were about making decisions and growing up\u2026<br>Contemporary fairy tales are almost exactly the opposite:<br>fairy dust glitters,<br>wishes come true,<br>everyone remains infantile and lives happily ever after\u2026<br>The only things they teach are entitlement and disappointment.<br>Have you ever met a bride whose wedding<br>lived up to her expectations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dislike contemporary fairy tales\u2026Not the folk tales they are often based on &#8211;they were the tools for understanding the world,and true to it.They were about love and indifference,loyalty and betrayal,blood, sweat, tears, joy and laughter.They were about making decisions and growing up\u2026Contemporary fairy tales are almost exactly the opposite:fairy dust glitters,wishes come true,everyone remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,54,56,23,15,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}