{"id":42326,"date":"2024-07-29T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42326"},"modified":"2024-07-28T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T03:43:56","slug":"more-on-fairytales-a-quote-from-victoria-m-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/07\/29\/more-on-fairytales-a-quote-from-victoria-m-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Fairytales &#8212; A Quote from Victoria M Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;In fantasy stories especially, magic is power &#8230; Dig down a bit, though, and magic is so much more. It has to do with what it means to be a human being, why the world is the way it is. That\u2019s the question magic asks. It asks if there are hidden aspects to the world. If there are things that don\u2019t appear on the surface but which are just as real as going down to the shop and buying a loaf of bread .<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">.. <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Fairy stories &#8230; are saying reality is so much bigger than the story told to you by your five senses. There\u2019s more going on. Don\u2019t just look on the surface. Don\u2019t just listen to received wisdom.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&#8212; Victoria M Adams<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41948 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cover-the-house-at-the-end-of-the-sea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cover-the-house-at-the-end-of-the-sea.jpg 223w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cover-the-house-at-the-end-of-the-sea-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cover-the-house-at-the-end-of-the-sea-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You already know Victoria M Adams from her <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/07\/08\/myth-magic-fairy-tale-folklore-influences-on-the-house-at-the-end-of-the-sea-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent post series <\/a>on the influences that shaped <em>The House at the End of the Sea<\/em>, which I hope you enjoyed as much as I did &#8212; so much so that it sparked these quotes on fairy tales, which I&#8217;m concluding with one from her posts. You can also find and follow her on Instagram:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/victoriamadams1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victoria M Adams on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In fantasy stories especially, magic is power &#8230; Dig down a bit, though, and magic is so much more. It has to do with what it means to be a human being, why the world is the way it is. That\u2019s the question magic asks. It asks if there are hidden aspects to the world. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42326","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=42326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42331,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42326\/revisions\/42331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}