{"id":2237,"date":"2007-11-14T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:52","slug":"lolita-pippi-bridge-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"The Lolita Pippi: A Bridge <b>Too Far<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/RzsjmJhebFI\/AAAAAAAAAXs\/4gabs1l-1qo\/s1600-h\/Pippi.L.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 align=left src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Pippi.L.jpg\" \/><\/a>We kvetched earlier this year about <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/rambling.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paddington<\/a> being commercialized and other characters being cheapened by overexposure, but this one takes the cake. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/business\/0,1518,517378,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Der Spiegel<\/i><\/a>, the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.se\/templates\/cs\/Article____11230.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Pippi Longstocking<\/a> character, once the possession of Astrid Lindgren, her creator who published her first adventure in 1945, has been commercialized to the extent that her heirs are in a constant court wrangle. From costumes to CD&#8217;s to skin creams, the worst of the offenders is an Italian company which is reproducing the doll for this holiday season &#8212; with a womanly figure and see-through panties.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Astrid Lindgren, who died in 2002, would have been 100 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We kvetched earlier this year about Paddington being commercialized and other characters being cheapened by overexposure, but this one takes the cake. According to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}