{"id":594,"date":"2015-10-05T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=594"},"modified":"2015-10-05T06:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T05:17:07","slug":"the-kings-new-centre-for-the-enhancement-of-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"The Kings New Centre For The Enhancement Of Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a story from from the EDF book of fairy stories and nursery rhymes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kings new centre for the enhancement of magic<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

There was once a king who was so poor, both financially and intellectually, that he decided to sell some of his kingdom to his fellow monarchs.<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Of course this was not going to be easy to do, and so he announced that he would build a new centre for the enhancement of magic.<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

He knew that this was going to be really difficult to do, and so he offered many bags of gold<\/a> t<\/a>o go with it.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

This was a very very popular move, or at least that is what his advisers told him.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

So he spent a lot more of the gold, which he had taken from his impoverished subjects, in producing many hand coloured maps to show what a wonderful place the new magic education centre might be<\/a>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

One fine morning he opened the gates to his palace in order to show just what wonderful maps they were. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

While his advisers stood around and praised him for his visionary ideas.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

One small boy happened to pass by, and having never been allowed in the the palace before, [ as a result of all the heavy armoured guards with the shiny new weapons which surrounded the place ], he decided to take a look at what was going on.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

As luck would have it the small boy had not heard about these very fine maps, and so he was able to see what they really were.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Thus he exclaimed:- \u00a0\u00a0 ‘ It’s wet and it’s water, and it’s water and it’s wet.’<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

This was because the map showed that much of the new magic education centre would soon be under the sea.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

This did not go down well for the king. So he ordered that the small boy be clapped in irons and thrown in to his deepest dungeon.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet the small boy continued to shout:-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘ It’s wet and it’s water, and it’s water and it’s wet.’<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet it took many years for the people to hear his cries.<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

While the king is still trying to sell his new centre for the enhancement of magic.<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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