{"id":2223,"date":"2018-01-04T22:43:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2018-01-04T22:43:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:43:36","slug":"2223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cookie cutter collection gained a very special, precious addition today when the parcel from my cousin A arrived. \u2764\ufe0f My cousins are so good to me.<br \/>\nThis jaunty gentleman was my grandmother\u2019s. She has been gone for many years. \u2764\ufe0f I am beyond thrilled.<br \/>\nHe looks to be vintage early to mid-century, so he is much older than me, and I\u2019m no spring chicken!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2224\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/e7543064-7484-4c4e-8276-230ae802b746.jpeg\" alt=\"E7543064-7484-4C4E-8276-230AE802B746\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><br \/>\nHe spent his life in a northern Alberta farmhouse, pressed into service to make cookies for my Grandpa, Grandma and their seven children who are children no longer, but well into their seventies, most of them.<br \/>\nI remember making peanut butter cookies in Grandma\u2019s big wood fired kitchen stove with my cousin S, but I don\u2019t remember using this guy.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t have one like him in my collection either, and that is unusual. With more than 150, it isn\u2019t often these days that I come across a new one.<br \/>\nCousin A knew where he belonged. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2225\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/689485e9-99ef-43b4-8e17-5405d0650c28.jpeg\" alt=\"689485E9-99EF-43B4-8E17-5405D0650C28\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cookie cutter collection gained a very special, precious addition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}