{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Digital Childhoods","provider_url":"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir","author_name":"Layla Koch","author_url":"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/author\/lmkoch\/","title":"The Magic of Children's Shoes - Digital Childhoods","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZrO3g7QZ8a\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/shoes-shoes-shoes\/\">The Magic of Children&#8217;s Shoes<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/shoes-shoes-shoes\/embed\/#?secret=ZrO3g7QZ8a\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Magic of Children&#8217;s Shoes&#8221; &#8212; Digital Childhoods\" data-secret=\"ZrO3g7QZ8a\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DP165966-scaled.jpg","thumbnail_width":2560,"thumbnail_height":1618,"description":"Much to the dismay of historians studying the material culture of early modern childhood, few examples of children\u2019s clothing survive from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While textiles degraded or were reworked over time, shoes provide a tantalising glimpse into the clothing and lifestyles of children in early modern England. A collection of four sixteenth-century leather children\u2019s shoes of varying sizes, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a gateway to considering the function and significance of these simple, but necessary, objects in the lives of early modern children. Like today, children went through their shoes at a rapid"}