{"id":7971,"date":"2013-05-26T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2013-05-26T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:03:23","slug":"preschool-science-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/05\/26\/preschool-science-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschool Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate&#8217;s off at Wiscon this weekend, so I came down to my parents&#8217; with the kids, rather than be outnumbered at home. We packed everybody into the car Saturday and drove to Ithaca to go to the <a href=http:\/\/www.sciencenter.org\/\">Sciencenter<\/a>, which the kids absolutely loved. In the &#8220;featured image&#8221; above, you see The Pip playing with the giant bubble maker (which we did for about fifteen minutes&#8230;), and SteelyKid emulating a recent Mythbusters by building a wooden house on a shake table to simulate an earthquake (with my grandmother). Other highlights included petting a snake, feeding balls through pneumatic tubes, and building dams in their water tanks.<\/p>\n<p>The kids had a great time, too.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you find yourself centrally isolated in New York State, definitely check it out. If you need to borrow some kids so the trip doesn&#8217;t feel weird, SteelyKid, The Pip, and I are available for quite reasonable rates.<\/p>\n<p>And how was your weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate&#8217;s off at Wiscon this weekend, so I came down to my parents&#8217; with the kids, rather than be outnumbered at home. We packed everybody into the car Saturday and drove to Ithaca to go to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971","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=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}