{"id":6,"date":"2009-06-21T22:45:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T02:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=6"},"modified":"2009-06-21T23:20:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T03:20:57","slug":"maureen-dowd-on-obama-and-the-brave-little-tailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2009\/06\/21\/maureen-dowd-on-obama-and-the-brave-little-tailor\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Dowd on Obama and &#8220;The Brave Little Tailor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seen in the NYT on 6\/20:  Maureen Dowd knows her Brothers Grimm, although she might have used a more recent translation of the line about the tailor&#8217;s heart wagging like a lamb&#8217;s tail.  Fearless is a good term for capturing Obama.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Grimms\u2019 fairy tale, \u201cThe Brave Little Tailor,\u201d a tailor brandishing a rag kills seven flies swarming around his jam-smeared bread. The little man admires his own bravery so much \u2014 \u201cFor joy his heart wagged like a lamb\u2019s tail\u201d \u2014 that he wants the whole world to know of it. So he stitches up a belt for himself embroidered with the legend \u201cSeven at one blow!\u201d and saunters out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Protected by his legend, using brains rather than brawn, he dispatches two giants and captures a unicorn and a wild boar before winning a princess and living happily ever after as a king.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The president didn\u2019t order up a \u201cOne at one blow!\u201d belt. You don\u2019t need such accessories in the era of YouTube viral videos. But he did admire his own ninja moves so much that he gave himself a shout-out: \u201cThat was pretty impressive, wasn\u2019t it? I got the sucker.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen in the NYT on 6\/20: Maureen Dowd knows her Brothers Grimm, although she might have used a more recent translation of the line about the tailor&#8217;s heart wagging like a lamb&#8217;s tail. Fearless is a good term for capturing Obama. In the Grimms\u2019 fairy tale, \u201cThe Brave Little Tailor,\u201d a tailor brandishing a rag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brothers-grimm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}