{"id":792,"date":"2008-10-30T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austenandgage.com\/princess-obsession-sad-but-true"},"modified":"2008-10-30T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T23:17:00","slug":"princess-obsession-sad-but-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Princess Obsession: Sad but True"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Poor Austen has been hit hard by the world of princesses &hellip; where a new dress is everything you could ever wish for and one dance means love.  &ldquo;Ugh,&rdquo; says Mommy.  <\/p>\n<p>  &ldquo;Big Girl&rdquo; Austen watches Disney fairy tales obsessively; they&rsquo;re great for bribery.  So far Mommy has given in and bought Cinderella (&ldquo;leave the sewing to the women, you go get some trimmings &hellip; and we&rsquo;ll make a lovely dress for Cinderelly&rdquo;), Beauty and the Beast (more admirable female lead), Sleeping Beauty (vapid) and The Little Mermaid (sixteen and getting married?).   <\/p>\n<p> When Austen goes out, she spots every princess related item in her vicinity and even creates some new ones:  a prom dress becomes, &ldquo;Look!  A princess dress!&rdquo;  She even recognizes the songs (her mommy&rsquo;s fave part of the stories) when she hears then, identify which movie they&rsquo;re from.   <\/p>\n<p> Any item in a store related to princess (mostly Disney princesses) must be purchased, if not now, then later.  &ldquo;Later, okay we&rsquo;ll buy it tomorrow,&rdquo; says Austen when Mommy tries to discourage her without producing screaming.<\/p>\n<p> Daddy&rsquo;s favorite part seems to be helping Austen with her princess dress up clothes.  He keeps track of the clip-on earrings and is good at helping fasten princess tops.  &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Snow White,&rdquo; Austen always says, although she hasn&rsquo;t worn her official Snow White dress since last Halloween.  Mommy&rsquo;s choice of an outfit was prophetic.  We&rsquo;ll probably be getting it out of the closet for one of this year&rsquo;s parties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:0 auto 10px;text-align:center;\">\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/austenandgage.com\/uploaded_images\/CIMG6758-706026.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:0 auto 10px;text-align:center;\">\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/austenandgage.com\/uploaded_images\/CIMG6769-706107.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\">\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media_httpphotos1blog_idrgm\" height=\"16\" src=\"http:\/\/austenandgage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/media_httpphotos1blog_idrgm-scaled500.gif\" width=\"16\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Austen has been hit hard by the world of princesses ??? where a new dress is everything you could ever wish for and one dance means love. ???Ugh,??? says Mommy. ???Big Girl??? Austen watches Disney fairy tales obsessively; they???re great for bribery. So&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}