{"id":246,"date":"2008-08-03T11:16:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-08-15T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T20:58:55","slug":"the-princess-and-her-fairy-godmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/03\/the-princess-and-her-fairy-godmother\/","title":{"rendered":"The Princess and her Fairy Godmother"},"content":{"rendered":"

… continued from Part I: “The Prince & The Captain<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Princess was in distress.\u00a0 What on earth could she do when the Prince, her fine husband, was so downhearted?\u00a0 She knew that his courage and integrity would make him perfectly suited to his new responsibility, but she couldn’t imagine being cheerful while he was so sad.\u00a0 She helped the royal cook prepare very special meals and asked the court musicians to play his favorite tunes, but all to no avail.<\/p>\n

Finally, she had a wonderful idea:\u00a0 She would call her Fairy Godmother!\u00a0 The spry and thoughtful magical lady always had good advice and perfect remedies for the Princess’s troubles.\u00a0 The lovely Fairy appeared almost instantly to the summons in a shower of silver snowflakes (which, luckily, did not melt into a puddle on the carpet but instead shrank to tiny silver sparkles and then disappeared).<\/p>\n

“What can I do for you, my dear Princess?”\u00a0 asked the beautiful Fairy.<\/p>\n

“Well, you see… it’s my husband, the Prince.\u00a0 He’s unhappy.\u00a0 I mean, he’s had a… disappointment.”\u00a0 and the Princess explained the whole story to the attentive Fairy.\u00a0 When she finished with, “…so I hoped that you could, perhaps, do something for him…?” the gray curls bobbed around the Fairy’s face as she sadly shook her head.<\/p>\n

“My dear child, there is nothing that I can do for him.\u00a0 It is not within my power to change how someone feels and thinks.”<\/p>\n

“Then tell me what I<\/strong> should do!”\u00a0 urged the Princess.\u00a0 “I am prepared for any quest that would secure his happiness:\u00a0 send me over the golden hills to the North or beyond the great sea to the West or past my father’s kingdom in the mountains to the East or into the desert wasteland to the South!\u00a0 I will tread any path to bring back any treasure that will aid my beloved Prince.”<\/p>\n

The Fairy Godmother knew that the Princess was in desperate earnest, but she gently shook her head again, this time with a soft smile on her lips.\u00a0 “There are no treasures in the wide world that will grant your desire.\u00a0 Your Prince has great treasures within himself which will bring about the change you seek in time.\u00a0 But, there is<\/em> some advice I can offer before I go.\u00a0 When you were born, you were also given treasures by me and my sisters.\u00a0 Do you remember?”<\/p>\n

“I remember learning of them as I grew up.”\u00a0 the Princess replied, curious as to how her fairy gifts might help her Prince.<\/p>\n

“Do you remember what gift you received from my second-youngest sister?”\u00a0 The Fairy raised one eyebrow and her smile broadened as she added, “it is a gift which must be exercised and practiced to stay useful.\u00a0 If you find it and dust off the cobwebs, I believe it will stand you in good stead now.”\u00a0 The air shimmered and the Fairy Godmother vanished, leaving the Princess with her thoughts.\u00a0 She sighed, and then managed to smile.<\/p>\n

“Alright, then.\u00a0 I’ll be patient.”<\/p>\n

…to be continued (one more time)…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… continued from Part I: “The Prince & The Captain.” The Princess was in distress.\u00a0 What on earth could she do when the Prince, her fine husband, was so downhearted?\u00a0 She knew that his courage and integrity would make him perfectly suited to his new responsibility, but she couldn’t imagine being cheerful while he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[53,148,149,146],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-3Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}