{"id":409,"date":"2014-03-14T23:44:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T03:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=409"},"modified":"2014-03-14T23:44:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T03:44:33","slug":"we-all-fall-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"We all fall down…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Those old nursery rhymes are a horrid bunch, now aren’t they?\u00a0 What the heck were are parents thinking when they read these things to us just before bedtime?\u00a0 It is no wonder that half my friends are afraid of snakes, spiders, heights, flying… and of COURSE… curds and whey.<\/p>\n

Yes.\u00a0 Those old nursery rhymes have hidden meanings.\u00a0 Hidden, dark, creepy meanings.<\/p>\n

Just a few tonight…. lest I’ll scare myself half-awake.<\/p>\n

Of course, Ring Around The Rosey is the most well-known horrible and depressing children’s tale.\u00a0 This rhyme dates back to the Great Plague of London in 1665.\u00a0\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 The good old plague.<\/p>\n

The symptoms of bubonic plague included a rosy red ring-shaped rash, which inspired the first line. People\u00a0 back then would carry around\u00a0 pockets full of fresh herbs, or “posies” ….\u00a0 because the dying didn’t smell so good.\u00a0\u00a0 And then, the inevitable…… the “ashes, ashes” line is believed to refer to the cremation of the bodies of those who died from the plague.<\/p>\n

Great thing to read your kid before they doze off for the night.\u00a0 Sleep tight Johnny.<\/p>\n

And what about Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.\u00a0 You know the one.\u00a0 With the cockleshells and all.\u00a0 It turns out…. this rhyme is a reference to Bloody Mary. The garden refers to growing cemeteries, as she filled them with religious opponents (in the ongoing war between Catholics and Protestants). Silver bells and cockle shells were instruments of torture….. and the maiden was a device used to behead people.<\/p>\n

Most of them… from Little Bo Peep… to Rock-A-Bye Baby…. have a dark, and doleful side.<\/p>\n

But what about Jack be nimble.\u00a0 Hey dude… be quick.\u00a0 Jump the heck over the candle stick?\u00a0 How could that be bad?<\/p>\n

Turns out… Jack was a murderous pirate… fleeing authorities.<\/p>\n

Boom. Boom.\u00a0 Out go the lights.<\/p>\n

So there you have it. The next time you go dancing around a Mulberry Bush… remember it was punishment for women prisoners at England\u2019s Wakefield Prison…. for nearly 420 years.<\/p>\n

Sweet Dreams child.\u00a0 Sweet Dreams.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.\u00a0 — Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those old nursery rhymes are a horrid bunch, now aren’t they?\u00a0 What the heck were are parents thinking when they read these things to us just before bedtime?\u00a0 It is no wonder that half my friends are afraid of snakes, spiders, heights, flying… and of COURSE… curds and whey. Yes.\u00a0 Those old nursery rhymes have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}