{"id":9396,"date":"2014-05-19T09:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2014-05-19T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:01:19","slug":"botany-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/19\/botany-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Botany for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate&#8217;s arguing a case in Connecticut today, so I was solo-parenting last night and this morning. which means that while I did manage to watch Cosmos last night, and have some thoughts about it, I don&#8217;t have the time or energy to write them up this morning. As explanation, I offer this video from dinner last night, in which SteelyKid and The Pip explore subtle issues of plant biology:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vnaJ69-0TK4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you might guess, it&#8217;s very trying to deal with such sullen and mopey children all the time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This was also on the heels of a classmate&#8217;s birthday party with SteelyKid on Saturday, which was preceded by two hours of carnival rides at Niska-Day, which was preceded by SoccerTots with The Pip, all of which came at the end of one of the worst work weeks I&#8217;ve had in the last 15 years. So, all in all, it&#8217;s a miracle I&#8217;m coherent enough to cut-and-paste embed code from YouTube and treat you to cute-kid video this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate&#8217;s arguing a case in Connecticut today, so I was solo-parenting last night and this morning. which means that while I did manage to watch Cosmos last night, and have some thoughts about it, I don&#8217;t have the time or energy to write them up this morning. As explanation, I offer this video from dinner&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/19\/botany-for-kids\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Botany for Kids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-steelykid","category-the_pip","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396","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=9396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}