{"id":374,"date":"2021-06-28T20:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T04:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2021-07-04T17:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T01:45:50","slug":"in-which-gretel-gets-a-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"In which Gretel gets a makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Christmas my sisters and I got <em>Sound of Music <\/em>dolls. As the youngest, I got Gretel. When Gretel came out of the box, her hair was braided and coiled around her ears (think Princess Leia). My first order of business was to take her hair down to brush it\u2014and that was the end of the tiny, coiled braids. Nobody could figure out how to get them back. How I did mourn! Apparently, I was hard on poor Gretel in other ways too, because she spent many years looking more or less like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gretel-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-372\" width=\"442\" height=\"486\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the other day I said to myself, enough is enough! I enlisted my husband, and we set about surgically reattaching her head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gretel-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376\" width=\"440\" height=\"598\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was one minor disaster during the operation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gretel-2-649x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-377\" width=\"433\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gretel-2-649x1024.jpg 649w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gretel-2-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gretel-2-768x1213.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gretel-2-973x1536.jpg 973w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gretel-2-scaled.jpg 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it was nothing that a little elbow grease, some two-part epoxy, some tin foil, and two kinds of tape couldn\u2019t fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Gretel had healed from her surgery I made her a dress. Now she looks like this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/New-Gretel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My niece Hannah says she will join me in next summer\u2019s Pet and Doll parade in Ketchikan. She\u2019ll bring her cat, and I\u2019ll bring Gretel, and we will wear matching kerchiefs made from the rest of the kitty fabric. Stay tuned for summer \u201822, because I\u2019m not letting this one go. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Christmas my sisters and I got Sound of Music dolls. As the youngest, I got Gretel. When Gretel came out of the box, her hair was braided and coiled around her ears (think Princess Leia). 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