{"id":549,"date":"2013-09-24T14:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T04:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2013-09-24T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T05:30:57","slug":"anthony-and-antimacassar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Anthony and Antimacassar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/9840764745.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-551\" alt=\"9840764745\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/9840764745.jpg\" width=\"1403\" height=\"1020\" \/><\/a>A favourite book from my childhood was <em>Anthony and Antimacassar<\/em> by Mary and Rowland Emmett. It was first published in 1943; one of my parents must have bought it. Perhaps when they were in England in the early 1950s. Rowland Emmett was a well-known illustrator and during the Festival of Britain created a bizarre and whimsical fantasy railroad. Trains and railways must have been his thing. Anthony and Antimacassar is about how Anthony, a china pig just sitting, sitting and bored on the mantelshelf\u00a0 takes off on a wild adventure by train, meeting pirates and highwaymen and strange rogue locomotives.<br \/>\nOne of the bedrooms I slept in had a mural (painted by my father) with images taken from this book all around the walls. It was magical. I have a few small b&amp;w photographs but I don&#8217;t know where they are. I wish we&#8217;d pulled the panels off and kept them! I&#8217;ve got most of the books I loved as a small child, but not this one. I think maybe it was my brother&#8217;s favourite, too &#8211; he&#8217;s got it. I&#8217;ve been looking for it on the internet on second-hand book sites.<a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/in.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-546\" alt=\"in\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/in.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a> I don&#8217;t have a lazy 175 pounds to spare, but\u00a0 perhaps I&#8217;ll get lucky soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/i.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-545\" alt=\"i\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/i.jpg\" width=\"257\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favourite book from my childhood was Anthony and Antimacassar by Mary and Rowland Emmett. It was first published in 1943; one of my parents must have bought it. Perhaps when they were in England in the early 1950s. Rowland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=549\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}