{"id":5825,"date":"2011-08-18T21:27:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T21:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/18\/thursday-balance-blogging\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T21:27:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T21:27:32","slug":"thursday-balance-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/18\/thursday-balance-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Balance Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this week&#8217;s Toddler Blogging, here&#8217;s a dad&#8217;s eye view of one of today&#8217;s playground activities: walking the 4&#215;4 border on the sand playground as if it was a balance beam.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-993d31f610e751c29252a9302a784d76-sm_balance.jpg\" alt=\"i-993d31f610e751c29252a9302a784d76-sm_balance.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t actually need to hold my hand to walk this, but it makes her happier. <\/p>\n<p>I snapped that with my phone, expecting her to still be in &#8220;No Pictures&#8221; mode at home. Surprisingly, though, she agreed to have her picture taking reading books with Mommy:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-389d15e8b0ece5de87426ba54dcdcadf-sm_reading.jpg\" alt=\"i-389d15e8b0ece5de87426ba54dcdcadf-sm_reading.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the sea turtle book that Grandma and Grandpa gave her (after a trip to the Virgin Islands where they saw turtles while snorkeling, I believe). She spread a huge pile of books out on the floor, making a giant mess, and then had us read about half of them. In case there was any doubt, she&#8217;s definitely our daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week&#8217;s Toddler Blogging, here&#8217;s a dad&#8217;s eye view of one of today&#8217;s playground activities: walking the 4&#215;4 border on the sand playground as if it was a balance beam. She doesn&#8217;t actually need to hold my hand to walk this, but it makes her happier. I snapped that with my phone, expecting her&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/18\/thursday-balance-blogging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday Balance Blogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}