{"id":486,"date":"2009-02-24T14:29:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2009-02-24T14:29:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T19:29:24","slug":"unseen-fairy-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Unseen Fairy Silk"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, I saw a commercial for a little worm thing that moved as if by magic. They weren’t pretending that it was alive or something. They presented it as a great trick.<\/p>\n

The commercial said, “are there strings? I don’t see any!”<\/p>\n

My little self took that to mean that there wasn’t a string. There was just a really cool trick going on that made the worm move around.<\/p>\n

My parents got it for me, and it was a string. I was crushed. I mean, crushed. If you ever tried to show the worm, the first thing anyone would say is, “hey, it must be a string.” And you couldn’t show that it wasn’t.<\/p>\n

That worm is still around<\/a>. Nowadays, instead of saying that they don’t see a string, they make it sound scientific:<\/p>\n

“This magic trick works based on your body motion. When you move, the magic worm moves. If you stop, it stops.”<\/p>\n

As though it’s some neato-zowie method of control via body motion. Instead, it’s a string tied to your belt (or whatever).<\/p>\n

Today, the Amazon.com Toy blog raves about a new lie to tell your kids<\/a>: Real (i.e. Fake) Flying Fairies.<\/p>\n

The blogger thinks it’s great, but I think it’s horrible. Horrible and crappy and deceitful. And they’re not even selling it as a trick. They’re making up some happy crap about “fairy silk.”<\/p>\n

In other words, a string.<\/p>\n

Ok, if someone isn’t buying it AS A MAGIC TRICK, then I guess it’s not a big deal. I seem to carry that baggage, though. Poor kids. Disappointments around every corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, I saw a commercial for a little worm thing that moved as if by magic. They weren’t pretending that it was alive or something. They presented it as a great trick. The commercial said, “are there strings? I don’t see any!” My little self took that to mean that there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}