{"id":384,"date":"2009-09-19T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2009\/dragonflies-and-fairies\/"},"modified":"2009-09-19T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T21:14:00","slug":"dragonflies-and-fairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/dragonflies-and-fairies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonflies and fairies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/SrVL8xEUtpI\/AAAAAAAAAT4\/IjqeqQwD3FA\/s1600-h\/100_6353.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/SrVL8xEUtpI\/AAAAAAAAAT4\/IjqeqQwD3FA\/s320\/100_6353.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383292436927002258\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Dragonflies are really rather special, don&#8217;t you think? So delicate, so ethereal in their colouring and see-through wings. They do appeal to my inner child who likes the ideas of fairies a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">lot!<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Hee<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">hee<\/span>, and now I have two little ones to share my fairy glee with!<\/p>\n<p>There is a large wall in our garden that is crying out for a mosaic mural&#8230;one day, soon. I know already it will be a forest glade with some magical goings on &#8211; think midsummer night&#8217;s dream.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, in homage to dragonflies and all things fairies, here&#8217;s one of the recycled broken dragonfly lights now turned into a dragonfly garden ornament (see earlier post on how these were made). Oh, and having decided that autumn was here, cold nights having visited already, tonight is warm, close&#8230;summer is back again! Time to sit in the garden with some wine and see if I can spot anything twinkling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragonflies are really rather special, don&#8217;t you think? So delicate, so ethereal in their colouring and see-through wings. They do appeal to my inner child who likes the ideas of fairies a lot! Hee hee, and now I have two little ones to share my fairy glee with! There is a large wall in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mosaic-loving","category-concetta-perot-mosaics","category-reusing-and-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}