{"id":164,"date":"2013-04-17T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2014-03-05T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:35:31","slug":"a-melissa-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/a-melissa-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"A Melissa Creature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/melissa-creature1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-165 aligncenter\" alt=\"A Melissa Creature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/melissa-creature1.png\" width=\"421\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/melissa-creature1.png 526w, https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/melissa-creature1-179x300.png 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Melissa Creature is an imaginary being created by my granddaughter. It was made out of Styrofoam, the colored dots were straight pins with linear aspects for the mouth, eye, and &#8220;wings.&#8221; The beings at the bottom of the painting are reproductions of Pink Flea characters invented by my husband while telling bedtime stories. They had adventures in outer space and make believe worlds, and included such characters as The Multicolored Robot, The Blue Doodle Bug, The Red Red Rose, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Melissa Creature is an imaginary being created by my granddaughter. It was made out of Styrofoam, the colored dots were straight pins with linear aspects for the mouth, eye, and &#8220;wings.&#8221; The beings at the bottom of the painting are reproductions of Pink Flea characters invented by my husband while telling bedtime stories. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-inspired"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Melissa Creature - JanetTifft.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/a-melissa-creature\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Melissa Creature - JanetTifft.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0The Melissa Creature is an imaginary being created by &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/a-melissa-creature\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"JanetTifft.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-17T16:06:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-03-05T17:35:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/melissa-creature1.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Janet Tifft\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Janet Tifft\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/a-melissa-creature\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/a-melissa-creature\/\",\"name\":\"A Melissa Creature - JanetTifft.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/a-melissa-creature\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/a-melissa-creature\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/melissa-creature1.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-17T16:06:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-03-05T17:35:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b4922f212f907263040137867b50b075\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/a-melissa-creature\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/a-melissa-creature\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/melissa-creature1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/melissa-creature1.png\",\"width\":526,\"height\":879},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.janettifft.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"JanetTifft.com\",\"description\":\"Fine Arts &amp; 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