{"id":1575,"date":"2010-11-07T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2010-11-09T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T08:07:08","slug":"fairy-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/2010\/11\/07\/fairy-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries interest in fairies was particularly strong. They represented an alternative to the materialistic and rapidly changing world following industrialisation and great population growth. In England Charles Kingsley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Water Babies (1863) was followed by J.M. Barrie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Peter Pan (1904), with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1906), and numerous \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFlower Fairy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 books with illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker (from 1923). <a title=\"Royal Fairy Fans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcollection.org.uk\/egallery\/object.asp?category=290&amp;object=25241&amp;row=98&amp;detail=about\" target=\"_blank\">The illustration of fairies on this fan depicts an enchanting, happy and graceful world of fantasy <\/a>and conveys the spirit of the times in dreams and longings for a magical world where wishes come true.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1580\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Royal fairy fan\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/royal-fan.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1580\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1580 \" title=\"Royal fairy fan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/royal-fan-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/royal-fan-300x260.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/royal-fan.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Royal fairy fan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries interest in fairies was particularly strong. They represented an alternative to the materialistic and rapidly changing world following industrialisation and great population growth. In England Charles Kingsley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Water Babies (1863) was followed by J.M. Barrie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Peter Pan (1904), with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1906), and numerous \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFlower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,8,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}