{"id":2300,"date":"2010-03-23T20:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T02:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:01:22","slug":"mudville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/mudville\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy in Mudville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2301\" title=\"Mudville\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/mudville.jpg?w=397\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The spring thaw has spawned yet another veritable paradise for boys&#8230; Mudville.<\/strong> Regardless of how many times we remind them to avoid the water and mud it seems to find them like iron filings to an electromagnet. Of course, I didn&#8217;t exactly make it easy for them <em>not<\/em> to get dirty.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, just before the snow flew, I managed to finish our brick paver patio (it&#8217;s been doubling lately as the neighborhood boys&#8217; hangout for half court basketball). Unfortunately the yard surrounding the patio was not yet seeded so the recent foot traffic has dug up plenty of earthy, adobe goodness. Ahh, Spring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spring thaw has spawned yet another veritable paradise for boys&#8230; Mudville. Regardless of how many times we remind them to avoid the water and mud it seems to find them like iron filings to an electromagnet. Of course, I didn&#8217;t exactly make it easy for them not to get dirty. Last fall, just before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[20,167,30,384],"tags":[389,390],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids","category-parenting","category-seasons","category-spring","tag-mud","tag-mudville"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3XRuE-mudville","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8027,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}