{"id":1363,"date":"2010-10-03T21:10:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T01:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2010-12-06T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:25:36","slug":"daydreamers-please-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/daydreamers-please-wake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"daydreamers please wake up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year Gus&#8217;s school camping trip was moved up to the fall, so we are in the midst of both the read-a-thon (to raise money for the trip) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/06\/whiplash-weather\/\">no-screens time<\/a> (this year it&#8217;s 12 looooong days!). It&#8217;s kind of bummer timing because Gus + Jonathan were really getting into playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraft.net\">Minecraft<\/a> and Gus + I have been playing Professor Layton &#038; the Curious Village, but it&#8217;s not the end of the world, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly things have been fine in no-videogame land, though I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m any more fond of it now than I was last year. We&#8217;ve had plenty to do this weekend: fencing, Apple Fest at his school, brunch w\/a pal, seeing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbg.org\/discover\/gallery\/dougherty\/\">stick houses<\/a> at the gardens, going for a bike ride, and (of course) reading. It was perfect weather this weekend, too &#8212; all breezy and sunny and fresh. So nice to be wearing sweaters again!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Gus spent a long time working with sculpey. And here&#8217;s what he made:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mom.jpg\" alt=\"mom\" title=\"mom\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mom.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mom-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mom-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>My kid is awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Gus&#8217;s school camping trip was moved up to the fall, so we are in the midst of both the read-a-thon (to raise money for the trip) and the no-screens time (this year it&#8217;s 12 looooong days!). It&#8217;s kind of bummer timing because Gus + Jonathan were really getting into playing Minecraft and Gus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,24],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-games","tag-kid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}