{"id":1776,"date":"2008-09-19T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2008-09-19T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T18:41:00","slug":"barbie-and-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Barbie and Real Estate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbie_and_the_Diamond_Castle\" target=\"blank\" title=\"On store shelves now!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Emily\/BarbieDiamondCastleDVD.jpg\" height=\"175\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"2\" align=\"left\"><\/a><br \/>\nEm&#8217;s been wanting the latest Barbie movie to come out &#8211; Barbie and the Diamond Castle.  She had a tough day yesterday, so I rented it today.  Later on I&#8217;ll be using my Women&#8217;s Studies certificate from UNC to paper a birdcage.<\/p>\n<p>Em likes to watch these movies with someone &#8211; in this case, me.  And as pointless as this emotion is, I get absurdly angry sometimes at all the BFF stuff in these movies because I worry about Emily&#8217;s social life.  Maternal instincts aren&#8217;t rational.<\/p>\n<p>A more reasonable objection: a plot point so far seems to be these heart-shaped necklaces that I know for a fact come packaged with the dolls.  I guess that&#8217;s nothing new &#8211; I remember hearing that the Star Trek <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/en\/wiki\/IDIC\" target=\"blank\">Vulcan IDIC<\/a> symbol was introduced into original Trek as a way to sell merchandise.  I guess if that tactic is good enough for Roddenberry, it&#8217;s good enough for Mattel.<\/p>\n<p>So hey, let&#8217;s wash the taint of Barbie away with a site that comes by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/cheryls99.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Cheryl.<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/lovelylisting.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"blank\">It&#8217;s Lovely!  I&#8217;ll Take It!<\/a>  It&#8217;s &#8220;what were they thinking?&#8221; pictures of homes on actual real estate listings.  Good for some belly laughs.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Em&#8217;s been wanting the latest Barbie movie to come out &#8211; Barbie and the Diamond Castle. She had a tough day yesterday, so I rented it today. Later on I&#8217;ll be using my Women&#8217;s Studies certificate from UNC to paper a birdcage. Em likes to watch these movies with someone &#8211; in this case, me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}