{"id":40405,"date":"2022-07-28T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40405"},"modified":"2022-07-28T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T01:15:50","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-gk-chesterton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/07\/28\/a-writing-quote-from-gk-chesterton\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote from GK Chesterton &#8212; Plus the Giveaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u2015 G.K. Chesterton, 1874 &#8211; 1936<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nOr not&#8212;depending on the story being told&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9549 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/the-hobbit-193x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/the-hobbit-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/the-hobbit-96x150.png 96w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/the-hobbit.png 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4378 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Thornspell-cover-illustration-723x1024.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>In Case You Missed It \u2013 There\u2019s A Giveaway!<\/h2>\n<p>I know, I know, it\u2019s a Middle Earth Age since I\u2019ve done one of these \u2013 but receiving a gift book myself moved my own gifting spirit, so to speak (as it were!) \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The full details are <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/07\/25\/the-hobbit-tolkiens-legacy-a-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in Monday\u2019s post<\/a>, but the fundamentals are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m giving away a copy each of <em>The Hobbit<\/em> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/heirofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Heir Of Night <\/em><\/a>(Wall 1)<em>. <\/em>(NB: Not necessarily the editions shown.)<\/li>\n<li>The opportunity to put your name in the hat will close midnight, <strong>Monday 15 August<\/strong> (NZ time) with the recipients posted on <strong>August 25<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>To enter, email me at <a href=\"contact@helenlowe.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contact[at]helenlowe[dot]info<\/a> with \u201cGiveaway\u201d in the subject line and your name and contact details in the body of the email.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The entries have already begun arriving, but the more the merrier so don\u2019t hold back. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40417\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Hobbit_Gift-edition-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Hobbit_Gift-edition-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Hobbit_Gift-edition-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Hobbit_Gift-edition.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30117 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.\u201d \u2015 G.K. Chesterton, 1874 &#8211; 1936 . Or not&#8212;depending on the story being told&#8230; \ud83d\ude09 &nbsp; In Case You Missed It \u2013 There\u2019s A Giveaway! I know, I know, it\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40405"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40445,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40405\/revisions\/40445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}