{"id":587,"date":"2006-08-25T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=587"},"modified":"2006-08-25T11:13:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T16:13:36","slug":"planet-nerf-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Planet Nerf, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,210351,00.html\">Some Playground Equipment Targeted by Child Safety Groups<\/a>.  Wherein we read some tofu brain saying:<\/p>\n<div class=quote>If children are the most precious commodity we have, then we don&#8217;t understand why people don&#8217;t make the play areas safe for children to grow up on. [&#8230;] Getting hurt on a playground is not a rite of passage to be an adult.<\/div>\n<p>Which makes it sound like our playgrounds are a crucible of rusty iron spikes, whirling blades, and Indiana Jones-style rolling boulder traps. <\/p>\n<p>So playgrounds are now too dangerous. Riding bikes is too risky. TV rots their brain.  Video games turn them into murderers. Sitting around all the time makes them obese. Clearly the only way to keep our kids safe is to place them into some sort of suspended animation until adulthood, when we can thaw them out and dress them in kevlar for a walk to the public library.<\/p>\n<p>Just for the record:  <a href=\"?p=130\">I saw this coming like Hally&#8217;s comet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: Some Playground Equipment Targeted by Child Safety Groups. Wherein we read some tofu brain saying: If children are the most precious commodity we have, then we don&#8217;t understand why people don&#8217;t make the play areas safe for children to grow up on. [&#8230;] Getting hurt on a playground is not a rite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}