{"id":231,"date":"2014-12-09T05:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=231"},"modified":"2014-12-09T05:20:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:20:17","slug":"play-work-play-sleep-play-practice-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"play.  work.  play.  sleep.  play.  practice.  play."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Photo-on-2014-12-09-at-06.07-e1418058585319.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-229\" alt=\"Photo on 2014-12-09 at 06.07\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Photo-on-2014-12-09-at-06.07-e1418058585319-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Photo-on-2014-12-09-at-06.07-e1418058585319-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Photo-on-2014-12-09-at-06.07-e1418058585319.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Right ho. \u00a0So my newest thang is in this magazine with yet another astronomically lovely bub on the front. \u00a0I hope that if you read it you will like it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/comment\/give-childhood-back-to-children-if-we-want-our-offspring-to-have-happy-productive-and-moral-lives-we-must-allow-more-time-for-play-not-less-are-you-listening-gove-9054433.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here is another link to an article about play<\/a> &#8211; this is written with someone with WAY more gravitas than I. \u00a0This is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>With December slip-slidin&#8217; away <a href=\"http:\/\/nourishingminimalism.com\/2014\/07\/18-non-toy-gifts-for-children.html\" target=\"_blank\">you might enjoy this list<\/a> of non-toy gift ideas for children &#8230; and if you move fast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialfreechildhood.org\/toady2014\" target=\"_blank\">you can still vote for worst toy of the year<\/a> at CCFC&#8217;s annual TOADY awards.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday I will teach a workshop for the first time since I was preggers with Little Girl. \u00a0At t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trcc.org.nz\/trcc_2008\/doormouse\/main\/trcc_2008_main.php?pid=4511&amp;expand_id=183\" target=\"_blank\">he Toddlerific conference near Christchurch<\/a>. \u00a0Have planned a preso, but have not even thought through all the logistics inherent in driving vast distances, filling travel forms, sorting real life toddler&#8217;s needs ETC because today is my Big Girl&#8217;s birthday! \u00a0Eleven years I&#8217;ve been a mama.<\/p>\n<p>One thing at a time for this geek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right ho. \u00a0So my newest thang is in this magazine with yet another astronomically lovely bub on the front. \u00a0I hope that if you read it you will like it. Here is another link to an article about play &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,21,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}