{"id":1972,"date":"2011-12-07T14:48:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2011-12-07T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T20:48:12","slug":"alice-in-wonderland-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"alice in wonderland swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>since we are mostly over our colds, we opened amber&#8217;s alice in wonderland swap today.  i foolishly left the girls alone with the parcel while i went to get my camera, thinking we could open it and take pictures of each item before looking at the next.  silly me!  when i got back i found paper shreds everywhere.  amber had already changed into her pretty new dress and was wearing her chessy cat ears, looking pleased as punch!  crystal was holding up a new skirt and asking amber if she could try it on.  noni, who is still fighting her cold and thus inclined to be a bit whiny was saying in despair &#8220;but there&#8217;s no pink for me! how come i gots no pink?&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/6473311969\/\" title=\"alice swap 1 by onebluestocking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7029\/6473311969_2b23174ba1_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\" alt=\"alice swap 1\"><\/a><br \/>\n    i gently explained that since this was <em>amber&#8217;s<\/em>  swap, the gifts were all designed for her, and <em>amber&#8217;s<\/em> favorite color is purple. and besides there was a lovely fleecy blanket for each of them<\/p>\n<p>amber switched into her new purple sweater, and graciously let crystal model her skirt.  noni took ALL the blankets and snuggled them with the cute purple puppy.  i promised them hot chocolate in amber&#8217;s new teapot and mug, and said we would read the new books at bedtime.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/6473312537\/\" title=\"alice swap 2 by onebluestocking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7153\/6473312537_92ffd72c61_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\" alt=\"alice swap 2\"><\/a> then amber and crystal ran off to play leaving noni to take a much needed nap with the blankies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>since we are mostly over our colds, we opened amber&#8217;s alice in wonderland swap today. i foolishly left the girls alone with the parcel while i went to get my camera, thinking we could open it and take pictures of each item before looking at the next. silly me! when i got back i found paper shreds everywhere. amber had already changed into her pretty new dress and was wearing her chessy cat ears, looking pleased as punch! crystal was holding up a new skirt and asking amber if she could try it on. noni, who is still fighting her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}