{"id":901,"date":"2005-09-15T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T17:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2005-09-15T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T17:09:27","slug":"while-i-was-at-the-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"While I was at the&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the rink yesterday I watched a little girl playing.  Mom<br \/>\nwas watching older sister skating and younger sister was entertaining<br \/>\nherself.  Actually mom wasn&#8217;t paying too much attention to either<br \/>\ndaughter, but was getting in some quality chatting with some of the<br \/>\nother moms.<\/p>\n<p>So little one is coloring in her coloring book with some markers.  That<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t last too long though.  Next she collects all the markers and<br \/>\nstarts stacking them end on end into one long marker.  Eventually they<br \/>\nfall and there are markers everywhere.  Wow! A cool new game.  Arrange<br \/>\nthe markers on the steps of the bleachers.  Wow! another cool game.<br \/>\nStand at the bottom of the bleachers and try throwing the markers onto<br \/>\neach step. Wow! Another cool game&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And so it went one cool new game after another.  Playing is fun.  I so<br \/>\nwanted to get up and play some of the games this little girls was<br \/>\ninventing.  I figured out each one in seconds and they all looked like fun.<\/p>\n<p>But to do that would <a \nhref=\"http:\/\/be-reckless.blogs.com\/be_reckless\/2005\/09\/the_age_trap.html\">Be<br \/>\nReckless<\/a>.  &#8220;The other thing that keeps you young, in my experience,<br \/>\nis&Ouml; keep playing. Play with your kids. Play with your lovers. Play with<br \/>\nyour friends. Play with your dog. Play with yourself. Live life as a big<br \/>\nfun game. And remember, it&iacute;s not so much about all the toys you can get.<br \/>\nIt&iacute;s more about the games you can invent to entertain yourself and others.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the rink yesterday I watched a little girl playing. Mom was watching older sister skating and younger sister was entertaining herself. Actually mom wasn&#8217;t paying too much attention to either daughter, but was getting in some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=901\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}