{"id":3113,"date":"2017-09-04T02:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T09:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2017-09-04T02:21:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T09:21:58","slug":"no-princess-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/09\/04\/no-princess-for-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"No Princess for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <strong><em>Disneyland Paris <\/em><\/strong>dashed the dreams of a young British boy.&nbsp; <em>The Disneyland Hotel <\/em>has a <em>Princess for a Day<\/em> package and a mom from Devon, England bought it for her 3-year-old son as a Christmas gift.&nbsp; &#8220;I knew that there would be NOTHING he&#8217;d love more than to get to wear a pretty dress, put make up on like Mummy does and have his photo taken being one of his beloved <em>Disney Princesses<\/em>.&#8221;&nbsp; This is how the package is officially described: &#8220;Grant every little girl&#8217;s wish with a real Princess&#8217;s make-up and hair-styling session; a fairytale transformation they&#8217;ll treasure forever.&#8221;&nbsp; The mom submitted a request for her son to be &#8220;transformed&#8221; into Elsa from <strong><em>Frozen<\/em><\/strong>, saying that her son dresses like Elsa &#8220;all day every day&#8221;.&nbsp; Alas, things didn&#8217;t work out as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The mom got an e-mail back stating that &#8220;at this time it is not possible to book <em>Princess for a Day <\/em>for a boy&#8221;.&nbsp; Mum brought up an excellent point.&nbsp; &#8220;If a little girl went to <em>Disneyland<\/em> and wanted to do a pirate experience or a Spider-Man experience, there would be no way that they would stop a girl from doing that because there would be an uproar.&nbsp; So why is it different for a boy?&#8221;&nbsp; Why, indeed.&nbsp; Once she posted all of this on social media, <em>Disneyland Paris <\/em>apologized.&nbsp; &#8220;An isolated incident, the cast member&#8217;s response is not reflective of any policy or belief held here at <em>Disneyland Paris<\/em>.&nbsp; We are going to ensure this does not happen again&#8230;Of course, both boys and girls are welcome to enjoy the <em>Princess for a Day <\/em>experience in addition to all our other special activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Disneyland Paris dashed the dreams of a young British boy.&nbsp; The Disneyland Hotel has a Princess for a Day package and a mom from Devon, England bought it for her 3-year-old son as a Christmas gift.&nbsp; &#8220;I knew that there would be NOTHING he&#8217;d love more than to get to wear a pretty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}