{"id":1996,"date":"2013-04-08T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2013-03-24T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T21:59:30","slug":"creative-knitted-art-a-golliwog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Creative Knitted Art – A Golliwog!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the height of their popularity in C19 and C20, the popularity of golliwogs as toys has declined as the opolitical incorrectness of their use as anti-cultural icons has increased.\u00a0 From Wikipedia – where there is a lot of interesting reading if you wish to pursue the subject:”The golliwog<\/b>, golliwogg<\/b> or golly<\/b> was a black character in children’s books in the late 19th century usually depicted as a type of rag doll<\/a>. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children’s toy called the “golliwog”, and had great popularity in North America<\/a>, Europe<\/a> and Australia<\/a> into the 1970s. The doll is characterised by black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips, and frizzy hair. While home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Golliwog<\/a><\/p>\n

This fellow, from Graciela’s collection, doesn’t quite conform to the type descriptor above – but we recognise him, anyway, as one of these figures.\u00a0 And, to me he\u00a0looks\u00a0rather Uruguayan, not just because his wristband says so, but his headgear and short dreadlocks are\u00a0somewhat reminiscent of candombe drummers, whose music\u00a0is listed as a World Cultural Heritage from the Rio Plate area.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the height of their popularity in C19 and C20, the popularity of golliwogs as toys has declined as the opolitical incorrectness of their use as anti-cultural icons has increased.\u00a0 From Wikipedia – where there is a lot of interesting reading if you wish to pursue the subject:”The golliwog, golliwogg or golly was a black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-wc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}