{"id":1223,"date":"2023-06-06T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2023-06-06T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:17:20","slug":"just-when-you-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Just When You Thought&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210920_1547524320720938347254503.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210920_1547524320720938347254503-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-967\" width=\"320\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210920_1547524320720938347254503-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210920_1547524320720938347254503-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210920_1547524320720938347254503-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210920_1547524320720938347254503-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210920_1547524320720938347254503-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210920_1547524320720938347254503-624x1109.jpg 624w, https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210920_1547524320720938347254503.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I imagined that kids did not color anymore. I guess I thought they were on their phones all of the time-I mean even what I consider to be young children seemed to be on their phone or playing Minecraft day in and day out. Well, I was wrong. At least I was wrong for some children. I put several coloring books in the Little Free Library that I maintain in front of my house and the next day they were all gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">That afternoon the doorbell rang and there were two sisters from up the block asking if I had any more coloring books. I will now stock coloring books on a regular basis. My faith in the fact that children like to have just plain fun has been completely restored!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagined that kids did not color anymore. I guess I thought they were on their phones all of the time-I mean even what I consider to be young children seemed to be on their phone or playing Minecraft day in and day out. Well, I was wrong. At least I was wrong for some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-im-just-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}