{"id":5868,"date":"2011-09-15T21:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/09\/15\/thursday-sand-picture-blogging\/"},"modified":"2011-09-15T21:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T21:01:53","slug":"thursday-sand-picture-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/09\/15\/thursday-sand-picture-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Sand Picture Blogging 091511"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current quasi-hiatus has the goal of preserving my sanity through reducing stress. Somewhat surprisingly, Thursday Toddler Blogging has actually been fairly stressful lately, because SteelyKid is mostly in a &#8220;no pictures&#8221; phase, which makes getting a usable shot of her a huge hassle. Which is why there was no toddler blogging photo last week.<\/p>\n<p>This week, though, I got this shot which is well worth sharing:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-defc51cbb455e1decff21e80871f85a0-sm_sand_figure.jpg\" alt=\"i-defc51cbb455e1decff21e80871f85a0-sm_sand_figure.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The notable thing here is not just the cute toddler, but the figure in the sand at her feet, which you can just make out. This is a self-portrait of sorts, drawn on the sand playground after day care.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And, yeah, it looks kind of like an alien from <cite>Close Encounters<\/cite>, with an absurdly long and thin neck. But then, it actually looks like a bipedal being of some sort, which is a great leap forward in SteelyKid&#8217;s artistic skill. And so, I wanted to share that with all of you.<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to work, because I have at least another couple of hours in this absurdly over-scheduled day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current quasi-hiatus has the goal of preserving my sanity through reducing stress. Somewhat surprisingly, Thursday Toddler Blogging has actually been fairly stressful lately, because SteelyKid is mostly in a &#8220;no pictures&#8221; phase, which makes getting a usable shot of her a huge hassle. Which is why there was no toddler blogging photo last week.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/09\/15\/thursday-sand-picture-blogging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday Sand Picture Blogging 091511<\/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-5868","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\/5868","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=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}