{"id":195,"date":"2011-04-07T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/layingfallow.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2012-09-13T15:20:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:20:16","slug":"the-growling-granny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"The Growling Granny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stink: The Ultimate Thumb-Wrestling Smackdown<\/span> by Megan McDonald, entered my son&#8217;s life recently. Previously Stink taught him about President James Madison, the solar system, and how to cure hiccups but basically he has just reinforced my son&#8217;s approach to every day&#8211;look at the world around you, latch onto something and let your imagination run.\u00a0 Because of his new book thumb-wrestling is his current obsession.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t your plain-old school yard thumb-wrestling, though.\u00a0 It is full of drama, backstory, and costumes.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, costumes.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Mexican wrestling masks made tiny for one&#8217;s thumb.\u00a0 Thankfully a shipment of felt arrived just in time so we could design some masks and make our thumb-wrestling matches legit.\u00a0 Haakon&#8217;s masks tend towards horns, spikes, fire, and evilness.\u00a0 The Growling Granny is mine.\u00a0 She is evil but in an Oil of Olay, doily using, lavender scented way.\u00a0 When the mask is sewn I&#8217;ll post a picture.\u00a0 Until then, what other non-traditionally evil thumb-wrestling opponents should I create?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2011-04-07-the-growling-granny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-356\" title=\"2011-04-07-the-growling-granny\" src=\"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2011-04-07-the-growling-granny-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2011-04-07-the-growling-granny-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2011-04-07-the-growling-granny-711x1024.jpg 711w, https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2011-04-07-the-growling-granny-627x904.jpg 627w, https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2011-04-07-the-growling-granny.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book, Stink: The Ultimate Thumb-Wrestling Smackdown by Megan McDonald, entered my son&#8217;s life recently. Previously Stink taught him about President James Madison, the solar system, and how to cure hiccups but basically he has just reinforced my son&#8217;s approach to every day&#8211;look at the world around you, latch onto something and let your imagination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}