{"id":3004,"date":"2010-05-09T21:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T03:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2010-05-09T21:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T03:31:31","slug":"imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3005\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/09\/imagination\/boy_weapons\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3005\" title=\"boy_weapons\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/boy_weapons.jpg?w=415\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s amazing how imaginative young boys can be.<\/strong> Especially when it comes to weaponry. As parents we&#8217;ve tried very hard to limit our boys&#8217; exposure to guns and violence when they were young but they still innately gravitated toward armed conflict. Even if you don&#8217;t succumb to the purchase of toy weapons, they will invent their own using just about any ordinary object. I&#8217;ve learned this the hard way.<\/p>\n<p>At any given moment you can find sticks and branches of various lengths around the perimeter of our yard. The first time I noticed this I went around gathering them up assuming they were offerings from the firewood fairy. I learned later as we roasted marshmallows by the fire that I had destroyed my youngest son&#8217;s arsenal of guns. Big mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, not all weapons of mass imagination are decoys of nature. A lot of the toys in the toy box work just fine providing they are long and narrow enough. Even my three-year-old nephew has this ability and demonstrates it quite well. Just yesterday he marched around our house blasting away his older cousins with a blue plastic hockey stick. <em>Beyoo! Beyoo!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how imaginative young boys can be. Especially when it comes to weaponry. As parents we&#8217;ve tried very hard to limit our boys&#8217; exposure to guns and violence when they were young but they still innately gravitated toward armed conflict. Even if you don&#8217;t succumb to the purchase of toy weapons, they will invent [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-Ms","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","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=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}