{"id":8208,"date":"2017-02-20T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T19:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2018-02-07T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T19:54:10","slug":"playing-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=8208","title":{"rendered":"Playing It Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8209\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookCover.jpg 695w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookCover-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Playing It Up&#8230;With Loose Parts, Playpods, and Adventure Playgrounds<\/i> is a book I designed for the Alliance for Childhood about nature centers, parks, and playgrounds that offer open-ended environments and materials to\u00a0children, in response to the rapidly dwindling opportunities modern children have for creative play.<\/p>\n<p>Recent studies demonstrate the failure on multiple levels of academic-based kindergarten programs, early testing, and screen time for young children, and this book describes one element of a movement to restore genuine play to childhood. Just out and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Playing-Up-Playpods-Adventure-Playgrounds\/dp\/1542859379#customerReviews\">available<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookSpread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8210 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookSpread-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookSpread-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookSpread-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookSpread-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PlayBookSpread.jpg 1391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing It Up&#8230;With Loose Parts, Playpods, and Adventure Playgrounds is a book I designed for the Alliance for Childhood about nature centers, parks, and playgrounds that offer open-ended environments and materials to\u00a0children, in response to the rapidly dwindling opportunities modern children have for creative play. Recent studies demonstrate the failure on multiple levels of academic-based<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=8208\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[9,177],"class_list":["post-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-design","tag-books","tag-children"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8212,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions\/8212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}