{"id":799,"date":"2014-07-14T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=799"},"modified":"2014-07-14T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T01:18:09","slug":"seems-to-be-a-pretty-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Seems to be a pretty good idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years my granddaughter&#8217;s birthday has been celebrated in the local park with a little picnic, friends and neighbors, and school friends.  Nothing fancy, just a get-together in the park for an afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The kids are getting older now, 6-10 say, and they have younger sibs.  So the group has grown.  One comment I heard from the young parents more than just a few times was along the lines of &#8220;You know, this sure beats those kids sitting in front of the screen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kids were crawling, barely walking, and running all over the lawn, digging holes in the sandbox, kicking the soccer ball, some dad brought a tee-ball setup.  When I left a crew of first-grader girls were dragging fallen branches out of the woods.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that later those same first-graders will be pushing the buttons on the remote to get a movie tonight&#8230;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years my granddaughter&#8217;s birthday has been celebrated in the local park with a little picnic, friends and neighbors, and school friends. Nothing fancy, just a get-together in the park for an afternoon. The kids are getting older now, 6-10 say, and they have younger sibs. So the group has grown. One comment I heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}