{"id":542,"date":"2006-07-05T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2006\/07\/now-i-get-it.html"},"modified":"2006-07-05T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T12:37:00","slug":"now-i-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2006\/07\/now-i-get-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Now I Get It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am 38 years old. And for all of those past 38 years, I couldn&#8217;t figure out for the life of me why Little Jackie Paper brought Puff the Magic Dragon &#8220;strings and ceiling wax and other fancy stuff.&#8221; This has honestly bugged me for ages and has been revisited recently now that Doodles is into Peter, Paul and Mary. What the heck is &#8220;ceiling wax&#8221;? Why would a little boy have ceiling wax? <\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until I recently reread, &#8220;The time has come, to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot&#8211;and whether pigs have wings,&#8221; (said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~ssiyer\/minstrels\/poems\/347.html\">the Walrus<\/a>) that a little bell went <i>ding, ding, ding<\/i> in my head.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sealing<\/i> wax. Not that that makes a <i>ton<\/i> of sense still, but it certainly makes more sense than ceiling wax, given that sealing wax is an actual thing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, for the record, it&#8217;s only in the past month that I realized that Jackie and Puff don&#8217;t frolic in the autumness, but in the autumn mist. That bugged me, too (how does one frolic in &#8220;autumness&#8221;?), but not as much as ceiling wax. (While we&#8217;re at it, what kind of children&#8217;s song is this anyway? Poor Puff, all alone and neglected, withering away in his cave. Is this the happy ending our children need to hear?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am 38 years old. And for all of those past 38 years, I couldn&#8217;t figure out for the life of me why Little Jackie Paper brought Puff the Magic Dragon &#8220;strings and ceiling wax and other fancy stuff.&#8221; This has honestly bugged me for ages and has been revisited recently now that Doodles is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}