{"id":4340,"date":"2020-02-28T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T08:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2020-02-28T08:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T08:22:32","slug":"down-the-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4340","title":{"rendered":"Down the rabbit hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the bicentenary of the birth of John <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Tenniel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tenniel<\/a>,\u00a0 artitst and cartoonist, noted for Punch and of course Alice in Wonderland.\u00a0 From the entry in Wikipedia:-<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Tenniel&#8217;s &#8220;grotesque&#8221; was one reason why Lewis Carroll wanted Tenniel as his illustrator for the Alice books, in the sense of imparting a disturbing sense that the real world may have ceased to be reliable.<sup id=\"cite_ref-University_of_Virginia_Press_26-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What on earth would he make of that world today?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/By John Tenniel - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=629700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mw-mmv-final-image png mw-mmv-dialog-is-open\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/ba\/Alice_par_John_Tenniel_30.png\/800px-Alice_par_John_Tenniel_30.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"689\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the bicentenary of the birth of John Tenniel,\u00a0 artitst and cartoonist, noted for Punch and of course Alice in Wonderland.\u00a0 From the entry in Wikipedia:- &#8220;Tenniel&#8217;s &#8220;grotesque&#8221; was one reason why Lewis Carroll wanted Tenniel as his illustrator for the Alice books, in the sense of imparting a disturbing sense that the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}