{"id":3415,"date":"2011-03-08T07:52:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2011-03-08T07:54:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:54:07","slug":"we-dont-do-coloring-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/we-dont-do-coloring-books\/","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t do coloring books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Daniel-Eric-Carle-art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3416\" title=\"Daniel Eric Carle art\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Daniel-Eric-Carle-art.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Daniel-Eric-Carle-art.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Daniel-Eric-Carle-art-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our house is full of unused coloring books. If I ask one of my sons to color something, I can count on him turning to stone before my eyes, immobile but for the menacing glare directed at me or the offending uncolored paper.<\/p>\n<p>The unused coloring books are a treasure for the friends who come to play. Sometimes I find a stray friend who has made her way into the schoolroom and has surrounded herself with all of the coloring books she intends to use. To the little girl, it&#8217;s almost unbelievable that our boys haven&#8217;t used them.<\/p>\n<p>My boys are more into using things such as scissors and glue. The picture above is by Daniel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our house is full of unused coloring books. If I ask one of my sons to color something, I can count on him turning to stone before my eyes, immobile but for the menacing glare directed at me or the offending uncolored paper. The unused coloring books are a treasure for the friends who come &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/we-dont-do-coloring-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We don&#8217;t do coloring books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}