{"id":638,"date":"2014-04-01T01:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T01:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=638"},"modified":"2014-11-27T01:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T01:35:45","slug":"the-elves-and-the-shoemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"The Elves and the Shoemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1582.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-620\" alt=\"IMG_1582\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1582-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1582-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1582-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1582-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>There was once a good shoemaker<br \/>\nwho became very poor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At last he had only one piece of leather<br \/>\nto make one pair of shoes.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Well,&#8221; said the shoemaker to his wife,<br \/>\n&#8220;I will cut the leather tonight<br \/>\nand make the shoes in the morning.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The story that follows is full of craftsmanship, thoughtfulness, generosity, good fortune, and magic. I loved this book as a child (my mom bought it from someone going door-to-door pulling a wagon full of used books, if I remember correctly) and the boys really enjoy it now.<\/p>\n<p>Author: Freya Littledale\/The Grimm Brothers<br \/>\nIllustrator: Brinton Turkle<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=insofadog-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B001QI0EU6&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;npa=1&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was once a good shoemaker who became very poor. At last he had only one piece of leather to make one pair of shoes. &#8220;Well,&#8221; said the shoemaker to his wife, &#8220;I will cut the leather tonight and make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=638\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2],"tags":[270,21,222,269,225,155,31,26,271,398],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-brinton-turkle","tag-christmas","tag-fairy-tale","tag-freya-littledale","tag-grimm-brothers","tag-i-read-this-as-a-kid","tag-knitting","tag-out-of-print","tag-the-elves-and-the-shoemaker","tag-translated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}