{"id":42870,"date":"2025-02-10T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42870"},"modified":"2025-02-09T20:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T07:31:25","slug":"a-tove-jansson-quote-for-your-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/a-tove-jansson-quote-for-your-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tove Jansson Quote for Your Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u201cIt is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">~ Tove Jansson, 1914 &#8211; 2001<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tove Jansson (Finland) is best known for her <strong>Moomintroll<\/strong> childrens&#8217; series, but some of her adult works, such as <em>The Summer Book<\/em>, are also very highly regarded &#8212; including (or is that &#8216;particularly&#8217;?) by me. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42875 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Comet-in-Moominland_Tove-Jansson-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Comet-in-Moominland_Tove-Jansson-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Comet-in-Moominland_Tove-Jansson-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Comet-in-Moominland_Tove-Jansson.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42876\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Summer-Book-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Summer-Book-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Summer-Book-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Summer-Book.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent&#8230;\u201d ~ Tove Jansson, 1914 &#8211; 2001 Tove Jansson (Finland) is best known for her Moomintroll childrens&#8217; series, but some of her adult works, such as The Summer Book, are also very highly regarded &#8212; including (or is that &#8216;particularly&#8217;?) by me. \ud83d\ude00<\/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-42870","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\/42870","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=42870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42877,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42870\/revisions\/42877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}