{"id":9686,"date":"2008-11-20T01:31:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T01:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/experts_bemoan_loss_of_kids_play_time\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T01:31:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T01:31:30","slug":"experts_bemoan_loss_of_kids_play_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9686","title":{"rendered":"Experts bemoan loss of kids&#39; play time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one classroom, a group of preschool teachers squatted on the floor, pretending to be cave-dwelling hunter-gatherers. Next door, another group ended a raucous musical game by placing their tambourines and drums atop their heads.<\/p>\n<p>Silly business, to be sure, but part of an agenda of utmost seriousness: To spread the word that America&#8217;s children need more time for freewheeling play at home and in their schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re all sad, and we&#8217;re a little worried. &#8230; We&#8217;re sad about something missing in childhood,&#8221; psychologist and author Michael Thompson told 900 early childhood educators from 22 states packed into an auditorium last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to fight back,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to fight for play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2008-11-18-play-time_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one classroom, a group of preschool teachers squatted on the floor, pretending to be cave-dwelling hunter-gatherers. Next door, another group ended a raucous musical game by placing their tambourines and drums atop their heads. Silly business, to be sure,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9686\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,101,111,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-education","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}