{"id":1863,"date":"2013-04-14T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2013-04-15T21:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T20:59:18","slug":"cross-generational-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/cross-generational-continuity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-generational Continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI was watching the bedtime story on CBeebies with the Little Monkey last week, and was pleasantly surprised that it was read by Floella Benjamin<\/a>. She looked pretty much exactly how I remember; she’s barely aged a day since Play School in the eighties. I was pleased because I rather like it when happy memories of my childhood become those of my child. Although, I don’t really have particular memories of Baroness Benjamin, it’s more that she represents a nostalgic miasma of stories and windows, Humpties and Jemimas.\n<\/p>\n

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\nMore specific memories arise from the Usborne books illustrated by Stephen Cartwright<\/a>; they’re the ones with a little duck peeping out from somewhere on every page. The Little Monkey is particularly taken with the ‘Going to a Party’ story in his Little Book of First Experiences<\/em>, because it includes a ghost. He loves ghosts at the minute. Having to read the same books over and over again can be tiresome, but the detail in the Cartwright illustrations staves off boredom; there’s a lovely one with a mother at the end of a day, having taken 3 children to the doctor, sitting in a chair having a cup of tea, looking shattered as the children play around her feet. Plus, there’s the duck to spot, which remains fun, 30+ years after I was first doing it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was watching the bedtime story on CBeebies with the Little Monkey last week, and was pleasantly surprised that it was read by Floella Benjamin. She looked pretty much exactly how I remember; she’s barely aged a day since Play School in the eighties. I was pleased because I rather like it when happy memories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}