{"id":108581,"date":"2003-05-06T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108581"},"modified":"2015-10-18T18:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:15:02","slug":"peaceful-playgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108581","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful Playgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These people who want to do away with recess and create &#8220;peace mazes&#8221; and lead the kids around from activity to activity THINK they are being sensitive, and think they are standing up for kids, and being childrens&#8217; advocates, but what they are really doing is KILLING all that is good and fun about being a kid. I had hours of unsupervised play as child. With me and my friends. Creating worlds, having mud wars, making up games, running through the woods, having social intrigues on the playground. I remember crying a couple of times, because of certain 9 year old tragedies, people ganging up on me, being picked second to last for kickball, whatever. My playground was not always peaceful. But it was FREEDOM.<\/p>\n<p>God forbid that I should have been ROBBED of those half-hours of freedom, by adults who wanted to structure every damn minute of my short little life! <\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t people just have some sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These people who want to do away with recess and create &#8220;peace mazes&#8221; and lead the kids around from activity to activity THINK they are being sensitive, and think they are standing up for kids, and being childrens&#8217; advocates, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108582,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108581\/revisions\/108582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}