{"id":638,"date":"2006-12-05T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=638"},"modified":"2006-12-05T09:51:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:51:32","slug":"trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/12\/05\/trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ava’s Grandma Georgie was in town last weekend for a visit and to make cookies with Ava.\u00c2\u00a0 She also brought along a new Jan Brett book<\/a> for Ava.<\/p>\n

I think we’ve read this book 20 times since G.G. left.\u00c2\u00a0 Ava gets a huge kick out of the two trolls featured in the story, Mig and Tig.\u00c2\u00a0 Mig and Tig employ the talents of a hedgehog to steal all the Christmas accouterments of a little girl named Treva and her brother Sami.\u00c2\u00a0 Treva catches up to the trolls and teaches them about the spirit of Christmas.\u00c2\u00a0 All well and good.<\/p>\n

But Mig and Tig are starting to get to me.<\/p>\n

This morning I was out stumbling around in the dining room after getting out of bed.\u00c2\u00a0 It was dark, and as I made my groggy way to the kitchen to turn on the light there, I had this feeling that there was something small and ominous scurrying around on the floor out in the living room.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a fleeting sensation, but my very first thought was that there must be a troll out there.\u00c2\u00a0 And it was unnerving.<\/p>\n

Then I started to think, “Why should a troll automatically be an ominous thing?”\u00c2\u00a0 Are they like clowns, where they end up being a little creepy even though they’re supposed to be cute and engaging?\u00c2\u00a0 Mig and Tig end up being not the worst characters in the world (all hail the redeeming power of Christmas!).\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it was weird to consider there might be a troll in my living room.\u00c2\u00a0 It reminded me of “The Gate<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think we’ve read this book 20 times since G.G. left. Ava gets a huge kick out of the two trolls featured in the story, Mig and Tig. Mig and Tig employ the talents of a hedgehog to steal all the Christmas accouterments of a little girl named Treva and her brother Sami. Treva catches up to the trolls and teaches them about the spirit of Christmas. All well and good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-entertainment","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9oLlO-trolls","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}