{"id":695,"date":"2019-02-07T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2019-02-07T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:42:47","slug":"the-importance-of-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the technology in their lives, today&#8217;s children never need to be bored, right? Well it turns out, maybe they do. Parents, the New York Times has a wonderful article on the importance of boredom in children&#8217;s lives. It helps push them to be more creative and can help inspire them to be more reflective and better at self regulation. Here is a New York Times piece with the details.<\/p>\n<p><a href = \"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/02\/opinion\/sunday\/children-bored.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\">www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/02\/opinion\/sunday\/children-bored.html<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the technology in their lives, today&#8217;s children never need to be bored, right? Well it turns out, maybe they do. Parents, the New York Times has a wonderful article on the importance of boredom in children&#8217;s lives. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?p=695\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}