{"id":34,"date":"2005-03-31T04:01:43","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T12:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=34"},"modified":"2005-03-31T07:16:33","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T15:16:33","slug":"month-of-softies-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Month of Softies &#8211; Shoes!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/images\/shoes.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"305\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Shoes\" \/><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>I thought a long time about making a doll for the month of softies but somehow a doll wasn&#8217;t a self-portrait of me.  <\/p>\n<p>As a child I had a fascination with shiny shoes &#8211; paten leather. I wanted to wear them all the time. I had a pair with taps on them for dance class and a pair for church. Every now and again I would sneak my church shoes to school to wear because they were so pretty and went well with dresses. I remember getting in trouble for practicing my tap at school while waiting in lines wearing my sunday shoes. <\/p>\n<p>So I made a pair of legs\/feet to go with a tiny pair of shiny shoes and then had to have the ruffly socks to match.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe one day the shoes and legs will be part of a doll but for now they are all I need to remember me as a child!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought a long time about making a doll for the month of softies but somehow a doll wasn&#8217;t a self-portrait of me. As a child I had a fascination with shiny shoes &#8211; paten leather. I wanted to wear them all the time. I had a pair with taps on them for dance class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}