{"id":124,"date":"2018-05-30T00:13:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/?p=124"},"modified":"2019-06-27T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T20:05:44","slug":"defending-the-wood-perilous-part-one-we-live-in-a-fairytale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/2018\/05\/30\/defending-the-wood-perilous-part-one-we-live-in-a-fairytale\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending the Wood Perilous &#8212; Part One: We Live In A Fairytale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-125 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairy-door-3aa-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairy-door-3aa-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairy-door-3aa-768x1131.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairy-door-3aa-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairy-door-3aa.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We live in a fairytale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You might not realize this as you struggle to pay your bills or sit in a traffic jam on your way to work. You might miss the magic as you surf the web or rub your aching temples. You might think that this world is mundane, filled with dreary drudgery. But that does not make it any less true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Fairytale-5-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Fairytale-5-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Fairytale-5.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/>What fairytale is this, you wonder? It\u2019s a story about a precious prince or princess who has become lost in a distant land, unable to find home again. It is a story about hope and the forces of darkness, and how all the Powers of Hell are bent upon the purpose of crushing the spirit of our main character.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is a story about the Prince of all Princes, who left His throne to come slog through the mud and hang on a cross to open the door that will let our prince or princess pass over His threshold and find the way home again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">That fairytale. You know the one\u2014the one where you are the hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you read it in a storybook from start to finish, you would gasp with awe at the bravery of our little protagonist and cheer at the triumphs. If you could see it with all the traps and terrors\u2014the demons that tempt, the imps that irritate,\u00a0the willow women who weave deceptions over the eyes of the men, until they believe that black is white, up is down, and boys are girls\u2014you <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-127 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairyforest-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairyforest-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairyforest.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/>would cry out in fear at the hurdles our heroes and heroines must cross, and you would weep with joy when they, struggling through the webs and fog, refuse to leave the path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">What path, you ask? The straight and narrow one that leads to the pearly gates and the glories of eternal life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-128 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairy-tale-9b-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairy-tale-9b-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fairy-tale-9b.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/>But how, in this age of willow women weavings and demon deceptions can anyone possibly find that path?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Even now, there are still waymarkers, hints that tell us the way to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But the enemy knows about those waymarkers, too, and they are doing their best to wipe them out before we can find them\u2014to remove the hints that help us tell the straight and narrow path from the primrose one\u2014the wide, smooth, and easy way that leads to the pits of fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One of those waymarkers that the powers of darkness have bent their wills against is <em>fairytales<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/superversivesf.com\/2018\/02\/01\/defending-wood-perilous-part-two-descent-darkness\/\">Part Two: <em>Descent into Darkness<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a fairytale. You might not realize this as you struggle to pay your bills or sit in a traffic jam on your way to work. You might miss the magic as you surf the web or rub your aching temples. You might think that this world is mundane, filled with dreary drudgery.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,5],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fairytales","tag-fairy-tales","tag-wood-perilous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}