{"id":126,"date":"2007-08-27T22:18:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T03:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetucker.com\/mwp\/real-men-on-pillows-126"},"modified":"2007-08-27T22:18:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T03:18:03","slug":"real-men-on-pillows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/real-men-on-pillows-126","title":{"rendered":"Real Men on Pillows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" width=\"175\" src=\"\/mwp\/files\/daddy-doll-1.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"244\" style=\"width: 175px;height: 244px\" \/> When Lynn told me about <a href=\"http:\/\/daddydolls.com\/index.php\" title=\"Daddy Dolls, inc.\">Daddy Dolls<\/a>, I thought it sounded pretty silly. They basically take full-body shots of servicemen (and women) and print them on roughly body-shaped pillows, thereby creating &#8220;dolls&#8221; in the not-so-near likeness of their subjects. It was obvious to me right off that such a poorly executed idea would never catch on.<\/p>\n<p>Except&#8230; I started looking at pictures of kids clutching their dolls, sleeping with them, dragging them around all over the place&#8230; and it sort of got to me. You realize that, based on biological odds, a lot of the folks serving overseas have children. But maybe (like me) you never stop to really think about those kids. It&#8217;s easy to think that their parents aren&#8217;t real people, but rather figures for the gloating political opportunists. They&#8217;re easily tabulated and moved from one column to the next, and from the &#8220;see, I told you this was a bad idea&#8221; box to the &#8220;let&#8217;s support our troops because it looks good to do so&#8221; box. But their <em>kids<\/em> don&#8217;t see it that way. There&#8217;s nothing special about military brats that endows them with the extraordinary ability to <em>not<\/em> miss a parent&#8230; they&#8217;re just kids, and maybe these dolls help a little. God bless them if they do.<\/p>\n<p>And God bless free enterprise. This isn&#8217;t something you&#8217;d see spontaneously happening in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lynn told me about Daddy Dolls, I thought it sounded pretty silly. They basically take full-body shots of servicemen (and women) and print them on roughly body-shaped pillows, thereby creating &#8220;dolls&#8221; in the not-so-near likeness of their subjects. It was obvious to me right off that such a poorly executed idea would never catch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}