{"id":2069,"date":"2010-05-20T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2018-01-21T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T14:38:18","slug":"a-little-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"A little family history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When looking through the bookshelves at home the other day Frances came across a small battered green book tucked at the back of a shelf. It is not much larger than a hand, but has obviously been well read and loved enough to keep and pass down through the family.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15768\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15768\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15768\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?attachment_id=15768\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-book.jpg?fit=215%2C301\" data-orig-size=\"215,301\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"miss sims book\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 F H Powell 2010&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-book.jpg?fit=215%2C301\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-book.jpg?resize=215%2C301\" alt=\"book cover\" width=\"215\" height=\"301\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-book.jpg?w=215 215w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-book.jpg?resize=214%2C300 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 F H Powell 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the flyleaf inside the book there is an inscription:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15769\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15769\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?attachment_id=15769\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-inscription.jpg?fit=290%2C466\" data-orig-size=\"290,466\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"miss sims inscription\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 F H Powell 2010&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-inscription.jpg?fit=290%2C466\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-inscription.jpg?resize=290%2C466\" alt=\"book inscription\" width=\"290\" height=\"466\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-inscription.jpg?w=290 290w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-inscription.jpg?resize=187%2C300 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 F H Powell 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This Miss Sims was Frances\u2019 great grandmother Alice who was aged 11 or 12 in 1882 when the book was presented. It was extremely interesting to see the fact that it was awarded as \u20182nd prize for Proficiency and Crochetwork\u2019 and good to know that there is a definite link with the past and that a love of crochet still runs in the family. We are now wondering who won 1st prize!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking through the bookshelves at home the other day Frances came across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interestseasons","category-information-about-buttercup-miniatures","tag-general-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/miss-sims-book.jpg?fit=215%2C301","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Q29Z-xn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15770,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/15770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}