How to get a subset of a javascript object's properties

Question

Say I have an object:

elmo = { 
  color: \'red\',
  annoying: true,
  height: \'unknown\',
  meta: { one: \'1\', two: \'2\'}
};

I want to m

Answer 1

One more solution:

var subset = {
   color: elmo.color,
   height: elmo.height 
}

This looks far more readable to me than pretty much any answer so far, but maybe that's just me!