{"id":18504,"date":"2018-02-12T19:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=18504"},"modified":"2018-02-12T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:29:50","slug":"where-do-toys-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2018\/20180212-18504.htm","title":{"rendered":"Where do toys come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to ask my children where toys come from, I&#8217;m almost certain they&#8217;d say &#8220;Mama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Press further, and you&#8217;d discover that my kids think mama <em>makes<\/em> all toys.<\/p>\n<p>I know this because I get the <a href=\"https:\/\/constructiveplaythings.com\">Constructive Playthings<\/a> catalog, and, like children have been doing for at least a century, my children use it as a &#8220;dream book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But while other children might recognize the catalog for what it is and might ask their mother to buy them the toys found within, my children come running to me:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should make THIS (pointing at one toy) and THIS.&#8221; And then they&#8217;re flipping through the catalog like mad, pointing at virtually everything, singing together: &#8220;THIS and THIS and THIS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They have limitless faith in my abilities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to ask my children where toys come from, I&#8217;m almost certain they&#8217;d say &#8220;Mama.&#8221; Press further, and you&#8217;d discover that my kids think mama makes all toys. I know this because I get the Constructive Playthings catalog, and, like children have been doing for at least a century, my children use it &#8230; <a title=\"Where do toys come from?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2018\/20180212-18504.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where do toys come from?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18512,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504\/revisions\/18512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}