{"id":826,"date":"2009-11-20T22:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T06:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2009-11-12T12:38:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T20:38:03","slug":"blocks-on-swings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/blocks-on-swings\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocks on Swings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_6492.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_6492-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"pegs\" title=\"pegs\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-829\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_6492-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_6492.JPG 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca has a swing in her (smallish) bedroom.  I&#8217;m not sure what this says about me, or my husband that he agreed to hang it there.  <em>Anyway!<\/em>  It is a very tippy swing, and has been great for her balance.  The other day I suggested we stack blocks on it, it was great!  It turned an easy block stacking exorcise into quite a challenging one.  So, if you just happen to have a tippy Ikea swing in your bedroom&#8230; no, I thought not.<\/p>\n<p>Also, see those little people?  Big hit.  I got some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftparts.com\/toy-parts-wooden-little-people-wooden-c-187_248.html\">peggish people<\/a>, thinking I would paint them, but it turns out the smallest, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftparts.com\/118-baby-little-people-p-2095.html?cat_id=248\">1-1\/8&#8243; Baby &#8211; Little People<\/a>&#8216;, are the perfect size to go with European blocks that have a basic measurement of 4cm, like Plan blocks and HABA blocks.  So now they are all living with Rebecca&#8217;s blocks, and I&#8217;m not going to paint them.  I think it might be a good idea to stain them different colors, because Rebecca kept getting mad at me when I would loose track of which one was &#8216;her&#8217;.  And I might give them eyes, but probably not, and I&#8217;m definitely not going to paint them to be different community characters, because they are so much more flexible this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca has a swing in her (smallish) bedroom. I&#8217;m not sure what this says about me, or my husband that he agreed to hang it there. Anyway! It is a very tippy swing, and has been great for her balance. The other day I suggested we stack blocks on it, it was great! It turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[59,14,214,23],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschool","tag-blocks","tag-doll","tag-homeschool","tag-toy","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmXcv-dk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}