{"id":907,"date":"2010-06-26T03:17:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T03:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2010-06-26T03:17:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T03:17:13","slug":"a-door-to-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/26\/a-door-to-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"A Door to Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daryl has been on the lookout for an old fashioned screen door for a play he&#8217;s putting on in September.\u00a0 Last week, he spotted one by the street for trash pick-up and snagged it.\u00a0 When he got it home, he realized it seemed to be made for very tiny people (!) and would not work at all.<\/p>\n<p>A door made for very tiny people?\u00a0 I immediately seized on it and asked Daryl to hang it up for us.<\/p>\n<p>Three hinges and ten minutes later, we had a door to nowhere.\u00a0 Or the back yard.\u00a0 Or anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4716538476_051db28307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4051\/4716537938_f702a9f379.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daryl added a hook and eye screw so the door can be fastened against the garage when out of use.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4051\/4716537668_3e0070b365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4036\/4715895143_8cd8b60939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We discovered that it made a perfect stage for puppet shows!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4022\/4715894763_234a6f6d49.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4025\/4716537812_842a084c9b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or just make believe.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4025\/4715895657_36b66d0b99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4058\/4716537614_21c9327edd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve learned over the years is that often the most magical things are things that other people would consider rubbish.\u00a0 Whether it&#8217;s scrap wood painted bright colors and used as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filthwizardry.com\/2010\/06\/giant-reclaimed-wooden-blocks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giant outdoor building blocks<\/a> or old doors that lead to nowhere, there&#8217;s often pretty nifty stuff out there waiting to be imagined &#8212; for free!\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daryl has been on the lookout for an old fashioned screen door for a play he&#8217;s putting on in September.\u00a0 Last week, he spotted one by the street for trash pick-up and snagged it.\u00a0 When he got it home, he realized it seemed to be made for very tiny people (!) and would not work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[100,141,179,182,192,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}