{"id":690,"date":"2010-03-09T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/the-magic-box\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T18:59:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:59:54","slug":"the-magic-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/the-magic-box\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/wpid-IMAG0273_edit0.jpg?resize=333%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"image\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite it now being March 2010 I still have my 2009 calendar up in my kitchen, not because I&#8217;m particularly lazy (but I am) but because it&#8217;s about 50 shades of awesome!<\/p>\n<p>Of course every parent thinks their kids work is amazing, fantastic, fabulous, first rate etc, but this is! I like it so much because while it&#8217;s not the work of art Matisse, Banksy or Tracy Emin could produce, and it&#8217;s no Shakespearean prose, Hell it&#8217;s even below the quality of work TBK can produce when he wants to, every time I read I can&#8217;t help but smile.<\/p>\n<p>I read it and remember that it&#8217;s good to have imagination and to never ever stifle his!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Magic Box<\/p>\n<p>In my box I will put a massive, dirty and dangereus exploding army tank. The feel of silky, shiny, sparkly, quick Sahara sand and a door leading to a u.f.o.<\/p>\n<p>In my box I will put the smell of super noodles cooking the sight of presents round the tree and the sound of rock music.<\/p>\n<p>My box is fashioned from high tech lock and dinosaur skin cover.<\/p>\n<p>And hinges made from a alligator jaw.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spelling mistakes are all his own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite it now being March 2010 I still have my 2009 calendar up in my kitchen, not because I&#8217;m particularly lazy (but I am) but because it&#8217;s about 50 shades of awesome! Of course every parent thinks their kids work is amazing, fantastic, fabulous, first rate etc, but this is! I like it so much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/the-magic-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Magic Box<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[63,102,105,1],"tags":[193,563,194,564,192],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-home","category-the-blonde-kid","category-wbiagw","tag-calendar","tag-parenting","tag-school-work","tag-the-blonde-kid","tag-the-magic-box"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-b8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":209,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/we-survived\/","url_meta":{"origin":690,"position":0},"title":"We survived&#8230;","date":"April 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The television amnesty is over, not that anyone is bothered. 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