{"id":1892,"date":"2013-04-22T20:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2013-04-16T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T19:16:39","slug":"the-gravitational-pull-of-thomas-the-tank-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/the-gravitational-pull-of-thomas-the-tank-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gravitational Pull of Thomas the Tank Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhen the Little Monkey was littler, I was a bit reticent to get him Thomas the Tank Engine books and paraphernalia. I had the impression it was annoyingly twee, and I didn&#8217;t relish the idea of being beholden to a marketing juggernaut. But gradually the books crept in, some of them a bit rubbs, others not so; and the boy enjoyed the stories with his eponymous engine, so I decided not to stand, literally and figuratively, in the trains&#8217; path&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p  style='clear: both; padding-top: 10px; padding-left: 10px'>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/64171810?byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"360\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor those who aren&#8217;t conversant with the &#8216;Little Monkey&#8217; dialect, he&#8217;s telling us that &#8220;Toby&#8217;s got cow catchers, sideplates, and a coach called Henrietta&#8221;. The boy knows his stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Little Monkey was littler, I was a bit reticent to get him Thomas the Tank Engine books and paraphernalia. I had the impression it was annoyingly twee, and I didn&#8217;t relish the idea of being beholden to a marketing juggernaut. But gradually the books crept in, some of them a bit rubbs, others [&hellip;]<\/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-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","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=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}