{"id":10434,"date":"2015-04-01T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=10434"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:24:08","slug":"the-cottingley-fairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10434","title":{"rendered":"The Cottingley Fairies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span><em>After<\/em> Frances and the Leaping Fairy, <em>1920<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the photograph, Frances, age twelve now, looks<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span>at the fairy leaning back against the branch next<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________<\/span>to her. Frances is young, ethereal. Dark ringlets<\/p>\n<p>twist past her shoulders, pulled back by a large,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span>white bow, its silhouette mirroring the fairy&#8217;s wings.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________<\/span>\t\tWhile the fairy appears sharp, motionless as the branches<\/p>\n<p>and leaves around them, Frances must not have held<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span>\tperfectly still, must have shifted ever so slightly<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________<\/span>\t\tas her cousin, Elsie, now nineteen, shuttered the Kodak<\/p>\n<p>lent to them with twenty-four plates. It has been three<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span>\tyears since they borrowed their first camera\u2014a Midg<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________<\/span>\t\tquarter-plate belonging to Elsie&#8217;s father\u2014and took it <\/p>\n<p>to the stream where they first saw the fairies, returned<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span>\twith their proof: glass plate negatives; <em>entirely genuine<\/em>,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________<\/span>\t\t<em>unfaked photographs<\/em>, the photography expert vouched.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10400\">Katharine Johnsen<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>________After Frances and the Leaping Fairy, 1920 In the photograph, Frances, age twelve now, looks ________at the fairy leaning back against the branch next _______________to her. Frances is young, ethereal. Dark ringlets twist past her shoulders, pulled back by a large, ________white bow, its silhouette mirroring the fairy&#8217;s wings. _______________ While the fairy appears sharp, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-2Ii","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10437,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions\/10437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}