{"id":6638,"date":"2020-01-17T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T14:00:56","slug":"10-things-you-didnt-know-about-winnie-the-pooh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-winnie-the-pooh\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things you didn&#8217;t know about Winnie-the-Pooh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>However old you are, we can almost guarantee that the loveable stories of Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore and the not so friendly looking Heffalumps made their way into your bedtime stories! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 18th of January, which marks the birthday of Pooh\u2019s author A.A Milne is now celebrated worldwide as Winnie the Pooh Day in his honour. So, to help celebrate the stories of the yellow honey loving bear, we have rounded up a few (10 to be precise) facts that we are sure you will love!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The boy in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winnie the Pooh stories<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Christoper Robin, was named after A.A Milnes son, Christopher Robin Milne.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winnie the Pooh<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is actually a girl! The real life Winnie was a female black bear from Winnipeg, Canada. Her owner, Harry Colebourn, bought her to England during WW1 where she lived in London Zoo! There is even a statue commemorating Lt. Colebourn and Winnie at ZSL London Zoo.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6642\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/G33P9722sz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/G33P9722sz.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/G33P9722sz-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fancy a visit to the Winnie the Pooh Statue? With The LittleBird Family Pass, you can save up to \u00a36 on your tickets to London Zoo! Start your trial today, and enjoy all the benefits of the Family Pass for just \u00a31 for 30 days <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/membership\/join\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The original Pooh teddy bear was bought from Harrods in London by A.A Milne for his son\u2019s, Christopher Robin\u2019s first birthday.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were ALL Robin\u2019s toys too!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6643\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WTP-post-restoration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WTP-post-restoration.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WTP-post-restoration-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bear was originally called Edward before Robin renamed the bear after his favourite zoo animal Winnie and a Swan named Pooh he saw on holiday.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">100 Acre Wood<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winnie the Pooh Book <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is based on the Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest, Sussex.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year in June there is a World Poohsticks Championship that all ages can participate in! The first annual Poohsticks Championship was held in 1984 to raise money for the RNLI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pooh has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hollywood-walk-fame-star-2-footage-090535066_prevstill.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hollywood-walk-fame-star-2-footage-090535066_prevstill.jpeg 3840w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hollywood-walk-fame-star-2-footage-090535066_prevstill-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hollywood-walk-fame-star-2-footage-090535066_prevstill-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hollywood-walk-fame-star-2-footage-090535066_prevstill-1024x576.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the most famous tales of Winnie the Pooh and friends started as Milne\u2019s bedtime stories to Christopher.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first published Winnie the Pooh story was in the London Evening News on Christmas Eve 1925.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Let us know how you will be celebrating Winnie the Pooh Day! <\/b><b>Whether it\u2019s eating some honey, having a mini Poohsticks championship or doing nothing with your favourite people, because we all know Pooh LOVED doing nothing, we wish you all a happy Winnie the Pooh Day!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cDon\u2019t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can\u2019t hear, and not bothering.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2014Winnie the Pooh<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However old you are, we can almost guarantee that the loveable stories of Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore and the not so friendly looking Heffalumps made their way into your bedtime stories! The 18th of January, which marks the birthday of Pooh\u2019s author A.A Milne is now celebrated worldwide as Winnie the Pooh Day in his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-winnie-the-pooh\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6654,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions\/6654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}