{"id":38,"date":"2006-04-04T23:07:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T12:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.butterflyrocket.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-04-07T23:26:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T12:26:43","slug":"wings-and-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Wings and Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fairy Girls\" alt=\"Fairy Girls\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butterflyrocket.com\/BR_IMAGES\/WeeklyGem5.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Featured Gem 5<\/strong><br \/>\nReal Photo Postcard<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8216;Wings and Flowers&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> <em>Unspecified<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>People pictured:<\/strong><em> Unidentified<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Postcard Back:<\/strong> <em>Foyle&#8217;s Photo Card \u2014 Studios, Liebig St Warnambool (unused)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong> I was beside myself with excitement when I spotted this treasure in a cabinet at my local antique store. Usually photographs of girls dressed up with fairy wings are beyond my budget, but here this one sat waiting, in a pile of old postcards priced for a song. I couldn&#8217;t wait to get it out of there for fear they&#8217;d say they&#8217;d made a mistake! There were many images of fairy girls reproduced in the masses early last century, but this one  appears to be a personal portrait, not reproduced for sale, which makes it even more special.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" title=\"PC Back\" alt=\"PC Back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butterflyrocket.com\/BR_IMAGES\/Weeklygem5_back.jpg\" \/>I do also appreciate the backs of old postcards and this one is nice and decorative. I collect a lot of cards just for their typographic design. Other times it is for the postmark or the handwritten message, another dying art in today&#8217;s electronic world. Call me crazy but I also find the foxing of paper visually appealing and a great texture to add to my digital collage work.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I don&#8217;t have any information about the girls. I wonder if they are sisters? Most likely I am guessing. I love the flowers and ringlets&#8230;but the wings are the best bit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Gem 5 Real Photo Postcard &#8216;Wings and Flowers&#8217; Date: Unspecified People pictured: Unidentified Postcard Back: Foyle&#8217;s Photo Card \u2014 Studios, Liebig St Warnambool (unused) Notes: I was beside myself with excitement when I spotted this treasure in a cabinet at my local antique store. Usually photographs of girls dressed up with fairy wings are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-gem","category-things-with-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}