{"id":6252,"date":"2012-08-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2012-08-18T23:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T03:19:40","slug":"favorite-thing-playing-with-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Thing: Playing With the Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The saddest part of being a parent is that in the hectic, daily struggle to meet the family&#8217;s basic needs, it is easy to forget how much fun children can be. I often have to remind myself to set aside time to play with them. I am always thankful when I do. Recently in play&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We built a garage for a toy car out of blocks. It had a sliding door operated by a pretend remote control, also made of blocks.<\/li>\n<li>We pretended that Marshall&#8217;s and Livia&#8217;s beds were boats and that the carpet was a shark-infested sea.<\/li>\n<li>We collected acorns in pails.<\/li>\n<li>We hid in blanket forts, and rolled around in piles of pillows, and had horsy-back rides, and played kickball, and laughed together.<\/li>\n<li>And Marshall declared, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a person. I&#8217;m a frog!&#8221; To prove it, he hopped and he ribbited and he gulped down imaginary flies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have so much fun playing with the kids, and that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s one of My Favorite Things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saddest part of being a parent is that in the hectic, daily struggle to meet the family&#8217;s basic needs, it is easy to forget how much fun children can be. I often have to remind myself to set aside &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6252\">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":[332],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}