{"id":486,"date":"2013-10-30T22:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/?p=486"},"modified":"2013-10-30T23:25:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T03:25:01","slug":"a-fairy-and-a-woodman-the-anterior-part-is-the-fairy-and-the-posterior-part-is-the-woodman-thats-why-it-is-called-a-fairy-and-a-woodman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/archives\/486","title":{"rendered":"A FAIRY AND A WOODMAN: “The anterior part is the fairy and the posterior part is the woodman. That’s why it is called ‘A Fairy and a Woodman’.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Pam Bliss<\/p><\/div>\n

Pam Bliss writes:<\/em> “The fairy seems to have stolen her outfit from the actual woodsman, so she probably doesn’t have a leg to stand on ethically.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pam (who posts her own sketchbook drawings here<\/a>) also stated that she has no recollection of drawing this. It’s fun to hear artists’ interpretations of things they don’t remember drawing.<\/p>\n

Personally, I don’t think this is a picture of a fairy in woodman’s clothing. It’s actually a half-fairy\/half-woodman creature, who had an unfortunate encounter with an identical looking, sticky-fingered frozen confection (made by Haitai, of course).<\/p>\n

But if the anterior part is the fairy, wouldn’t it take the wand, not the axe?<\/p>\n

To further muddy the waters, there’s the snack food’s namesake \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this Korean folk tale <\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0 in which the woodman<\/em> steals the fairy’s<\/em> clothes*.<\/p>\n

*and didn’t give them back until after they were married and had three kids together, which is sort of creepy, but beside the point of the story, I guess.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pam Bliss writes: “The fairy seems to have stolen her outfit from the actual woodsman, so she probably doesn’t have a leg to stand on ethically.” Pam (who posts her own sketchbook drawings here) also stated that she has no recollection of drawing this. It’s fun to hear artists’ interpretations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":487,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,7,1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-haitai-confectionery","category-theme-sketchbooks","category-uncategorized","tag-pam-bliss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Candy_FairyWoodman.jpg?fit=800%2C1007&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1iEpY-7Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}