{"id":332,"date":"2007-04-22T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2015-07-10T22:14:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:14:22","slug":"breakfast-reading-422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/04\/22\/breakfast-reading-422\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast reading 4.22"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickensworld.co.uk\/index.php\">Dickens World<\/a> will open in May. I wonder how it will pan out? And what the state-of-the-art animatronic show is? Wasn&#8217;t there someone developing a virtual world, a la Second Life, based on Dickens, or did I dream it up? I can&#8217;t find it on Google.<\/li>\n<li>Amy gives us <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.opml.org\/amyloo\/2007\/04\/21#aNewAsFarAsIKnowCategoryOfPerformanceArtInterpretiveReadingOfAnAntiqueTextbook\">an interpretive reading<\/a> of a 1907 text on novelty, fads and herd mentality. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m one of the &#8216;social derelicts&#8217;! Isn&#8217;t it noticeable how patriachal the writing is? Maybe I will record a reciprocal reading from Christina Hardyment&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Dream-Babies-Christina-Hardyment\/dp\/0224019104\"><em>Dream Babies: Childcare from Locke to Spock<\/em><\/a>, which traces the fashions in childcare over the last few centuries, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinahardyment.co.uk\/domesticity-matters.html\">her theory<\/a> that &#8216;what we are told to do with our children is very much a reflection of the times we live in, and the prevailing social and psychological theories&#8217;. This book influenced me greatly: I can remember being quite shaken that something as fundamental as how one brings up children could be so deeply subject to fads (and again, often in the past generated by &#8216;knowledgable&#8217; men), but it&#8217;s really worth knowing. I should read some of Hardyment&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinahardyment.co.uk\/books.html\">newer books<\/a>, as they look interesting, too.<\/li>\n<li>Princess Mary of Denmark, (<em>our<\/em> Mary ;P), has given birth to a daughter. She and Frederick have all the sense, joy and grace that is lacking in the English royals; wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if we could swap? His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crownprincecouple.dk\/23d0029\">wedding speech<\/a> was worthy of a Darcy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickens World will open in May. I wonder how it will pan out? And what the state-of-the-art animatronic show is? Wasn&#8217;t there someone developing a virtual world, a la Second Life, based on Dickens, or did I dream it up? I can&#8217;t find it on Google. 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