{"id":165,"date":"2008-05-17T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-05-17T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T10:00:20","slug":"foam-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Foam Beads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, Bridget and I were at the dollar store and I let her choose one toy.<\/p>\n<p>She picked these foam beads that you string. She&#8217;s strung things before&#8230; wooden beads, and fruit loops&#8230; but I guess that foam beads were a fun new challenge and provided just enough variation to re-peak her interest.<\/p>\n<p>She sat at the table for about half an hour stringing her beads.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05.17_Beads1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05.17_Beads2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05.17_Beads3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Toward the end I had to help her a bit, but she was still pretty pleased with her completed necklace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05.17_Beads4.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently though, it looked a little bit like the fruit loop necklace she made before&#8230; or maybe it looked like a candy necklace&#8230; because she asked me if she could eat it. At least she asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, Bridget and I were at the dollar store and I let her choose one toy. She picked these foam beads that you string. She&#8217;s strung things before&#8230; wooden beads, and fruit loops&#8230; but I guess that foam beads were a fun new challenge and provided just enough variation to re-peak her interest. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}