{"id":361,"date":"2008-02-13T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/short-and-well-rehearsed\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:04:24","slug":"short-and-well-rehearsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/short-and-well-rehearsed\/","title":{"rendered":"Short and well rehearsed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a subscription to <a href=\"http:\/\/wondertime.go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wondertime<\/a> magazine for my birthday this year, and have been surprised at how much I enjoy the articles. (It&#8217;s a Disney property and the ads are another story; I&#8217;ve started a collection of egregiously sexist ones for the shock and humor value.)<\/p>\n<p>A recent article really struck a chord with me, and it introduces a parenting principle I&#8217;d like to adopt: <strong>short and well rehearsed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My children were no longer allowed to interrupt us with &#8220;Watch this!&#8221; unless whatever we were going to see was short and well rehearsed. When applied to a dinner party, that meant rehearsed for, say, an hour, and performed for, say, three minutes. The results were amazing&#8230;.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/wondertime.go.com\/learning\/article\/getting-kids-to-rehearse-first.html\" target=\"_blank\">read entire article<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a subscription to Wondertime magazine for my birthday this year, and have been surprised at how much I enjoy the articles. (It&#8217;s a Disney property and the ads are another story; I&#8217;ve started a collection of egregiously sexist ones for the shock and humor value.) A recent article really struck a chord with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}