{"id":6,"date":"2006-08-15T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T19:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-08-15T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T19:19:55","slug":"where-do-the-children-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Where do the children play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lately I&#8217;ve been working at a childcare facility. My assignment worked here with me and passed away last night. I stayed behind to help counsel the kids over the loss. I decided it would be a nice break for them to go for a walk. So we all went to the local park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was not one of my better ideas. When we got there I realized that over the night someone or some people had &#8220;tagged&#8221; a lot of the equipment. So then I got to explain what &#8220;Poke Smot!&#8221; meant to little kids. And that was the most benign message.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It just made me sad. At what point does a playground stop being a place to have fun and start being a target for defacement? I felt bad for the kids in my care but also the people who did that and were once children. What happened to those children?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, my break is nearly over.  I need to get back to the kids.  I get to read &#8220;Stellaluna.&#8221;  \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One last thing, thanks for the edits LJA.  I like this much better now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your friend,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been working at a childcare facility. My assignment worked here with me and passed away last night. I stayed behind to help counsel the kids over the loss. I decided it would be a nice break for them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/?p=6\">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":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}