{"id":261,"date":"2026-05-07T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/may\/07\/how-trinketcore-is-bringing-joy-in-turbulent-times"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:18:23","slug":"2bb1e56f5fc4753bfbf6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a tiny bit of joy!\u2019 How trinket swapping is making the world a happier place, one china sheep at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s so life-affirming about collecting and trading miniature animals, keyrings, stickers and pins? We visit one of the 1,500 trinket exchanges to find outI\u2019m standing, holding a thumbnail-sized glass owl, in front of a pink box filled with a boggling kaleidoscope of colours, shapes and textures. There\u2019s a plush elephant wearing a green and pink sombrero; a rubber oval that is part doughnut with sprinkles, part frog; a bubble tea keyring; stickers and pins; a sparkly tangle of bracelets and mu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/may\/07\/how-trinketcore-is-bringing-joy-in-turbulent-times\">Read original at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s so life-affirming about collecting and trading miniature animals, keyrings, stickers and pins? We visit one of the 1,500 trinket exchanges to find outI\u2019m standing, holding a thumbnail-sized gla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}