{"id":102,"date":"2007-12-17T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/12\/17\/1197918861930.html"},"modified":"2007-12-17T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:14:21","slug":"blogentry-fling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Fling!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter, 5, is working on a reading game called Headsprout.  It tries very hard to give her meaningful things to read, based on the sounds she&#039;s worked on, so you tend to get very simple stories about characters who have otherwise meaningless names like &#034;Vee&#034; and &#034;San&#034;:  &#034;See Vee, see San, see San and Vee in the van on the sand.&#034;  That sort of thing.    Each character started out as a space alien, but in the later books they became animals.<\/p>\n<p\/>It just clicked with me the other day when I was reading a book with her that one of the characters is a monkey. And his name is &#034;Fling.&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>Somebody at Headsprout has a sense of humor.  I will wait until my daughter is old enough before I explain to her what monkeys are famous for flinging.  Maybe during a trip to the zoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter, 5, is working on a reading game called Headsprout. It tries very hard to give her meaningful things to read, based on the sounds she&#039;s worked on, so you tend to get very simple stories about characters who have otherwise meaningless names like &#034;Vee&#034; and &#034;San&#034;: &#034;See Vee, see San, see San and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}