{"id":229,"date":"2020-03-25T07:29:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2020-03-25T07:29:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:29:55","slug":"what-was-it-made-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/25\/what-was-it-made-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What was it made for?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My 4-year-old will often do things like lean on an open drawer or stand on something that isn\u2019t designed to support his weight. When interacting with a man made object, it\u2019s useful to ask: What is it made for? My advice for my 4-year-old would be to make sure it\u2019s a trampoline before you start jumping up and down on it.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t expect things to be good at something that they weren\u2019t designed to do. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 4-year-old will often do things like lean on an open drawer or stand on something that isn\u2019t designed to support his weight. When interacting with a man made object, it\u2019s useful to ask: What is it made for? My advice for my 4-year-old would be to make sure it\u2019s a trampoline before you start &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/25\/what-was-it-made-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What was it made for?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}