{"id":335,"date":"2025-09-06T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/?p=335"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:44:10","slug":"the-quest-of-the-heroine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Girls and Goddesses &#8211; the heroine in myth and fairytale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dazzling goddesses, sly princesses, lazy daughters, wilful lasses, crazed sorceresses, brave maidens and girls with answers, m<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eet bold and gutsy heroines! In these fairytales and myths girls, goddesses and<\/span> women are the protagonists of the tales. They engage in tricks and romances, face dangers and obstacles, create and undo magic spells and ultimately conquer the impossible. The stories are drawn from all over the world and celebrate the varied and unexpectedly powerful roles heroines have in traditional tales. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Some are clever, some are funny, some are foolish &#8211; all are brave!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sally-pomme-clayton-and-drum-e1476310753625.jpg\" alt=\"sally pomme clayton storytelling for adults, \" class=\"wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sally-pomme-clayton-and-drum-e1476310753625.jpg 828w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sally-pomme-clayton-and-drum-e1476310753625-420x207.jpg 420w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sally-pomme-clayton-and-drum-e1476310753625-744x367.jpg 744w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sally-pomme-clayton-and-drum-e1476310753625-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sally-pomme-clayton-and-drum-e1476310753625-600x296.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sally-pomme-clayton-and-drum-e1476310753625-812x400.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Sally Pomme Clayton delivered her performance with a beautiful delicacy, and a great deal of charisma.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> &#8216;yoppul&#8217; Isle of Wight<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dazzling goddesses, sly princesses, lazy daughters, wilful lasses, crazed sorceresses, brave maidens and girls with answers, meet bold and gutsy heroines! In these fairytales and myths girls, goddesses and women are the protagonists of the tales. They engage in tricks and romances, face dangers and obstacles, create and undo magic spells and ultimately conquer the impossible. The stories are drawn from all over the world and celebrate the varied and unexpectedly powerful roles heroines have in traditional tales. Some are clever, some are funny, some are foolish &#8211; all are brave!\u00a0 &#8220;Sally Pomme Clayton delivered her performance with a beautiful delicacy, and a great deal of charisma.&#8221; &#8216;yoppul&#8217; Isle of Wight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[92,93,185,184,94],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performances","tag-feminine-in-fairytales","tag-feminist-fairytales","tag-goddesses","tag-heroine-in-myth-and-fairytale","tag-women-protagonists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}