{"id":3099,"date":"2021-02-25T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2021-02-25T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T17:00:49","slug":"bright-things-19-grimms-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"Bright Things #19: Grimm&#8217;s Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">One o<\/strong><\/em><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">f the themes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Memory-Collectors\/Kim-Neville\/9781982157586\">The Memory Collectors<\/a> is our relationship to physical objects \u2014 the memories, emotions, and power they hold for us. <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Every week leading up to the book\u2019s release, I\u2019ll share the story of an object that\u2019s special to me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3100 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-8328-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-8328-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-8328-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-8328-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-8328-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-8328-1140x1520.jpg 1140w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-8328-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If I had to choose a favourite childhood book, it would be this copy of Grimm\u2019s Fairy Tales. It\u2019s the only book I still own from when I was a kid. It has over 200 stories in it, and I know I read them all because I checked them off in the table of contents with a pencil crayon. I received it as a gift when I was about seven, and it was such a revelation to read the original versions of stories that I thought I knew.<\/p>\n<p>I remember vividly how I felt reading the Grimm\u2019s version of Cinderella, especially the moments when her stepsisters cut off their own heels and toes in order to fit into the glass slipper. I am lucky to have had a lovely and idyllic childhood, so the idea that such brutal ambition existed in the world was shocking to me, but also terribly fascinating. I guess it should be no surprise that my own stories often go to dark places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the themes of The Memory Collectors is our relationship to physical objects \u2014 the memories, emotions, and power they hold for us. Every week leading up to the book\u2019s release, I\u2019ll share the story of an object that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-reading","category-bright-things","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}