{"id":9467,"date":"2017-09-04T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=9467"},"modified":"2017-09-04T20:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T20:04:38","slug":"WizardOztext0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/WizardOztext0\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction, page 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/content-restricted\/edmereading\/wizardoz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Table of Contents<\/a><input type=\"button\" name=\"NextPage\" style=\"float : right; font-size : 20px;\" onclick=\"location.href=&#39;http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=9468&#39;\" value=\"  Questions for this Chapter  \"><\/p>\n<p>Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.  The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as &quot;historical&quot; in the children&#39;s library; for the time has come for a series of newer &quot;wonder tales&quot; in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood&#8211;curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.  Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.<\/p>\n<p>Having this thought in mind, the story of &quot;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz&quot; was written solely to please children of today.  It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.<\/p>\n<p>L. Frank Baum<\/p>\n<p>Chicago, April, 1900.<input type=\"button\" name=\"NextPage\" style=\"float : right; font-size : 20px;\" onclick=\"location.href=&#39;http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=9468&#39;\" value=\"  Questions for this Chapter  \"><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction, page 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"opened","ping_status":"opened","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Artemis-Fowl","category-Hatchet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}