{"id":197,"date":"2010-05-20T20:43:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T03:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-05-20T20:43:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T03:43:43","slug":"cows-and-kangaroos-for-my-city-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Cows and Kangaroos for my city kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were in our van today, you would have heard the following conversation:<\/p>\n<p><em>Shelley:<\/em> Hey kids, look at that cow in the trailer over there!<\/p>\n<p><em>Kids:<\/em> What?\u00a0 Where?\u00a0 Oh cool!<\/p>\n<p><em>Grace: <\/em>That&#8217;s not a cow.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a kangaroo!<\/p>\n<p><em>Stephen:<\/em> Sorry, honey, that&#8217;s a cow.\u00a0 Kangaroos have longer ears. <em>(Said in a wry tone of voice at the end of a long day.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Faith: <\/em>Actually Grace, kangaroos live in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><em>Insert the sound of chirping crickets and the banging of the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">children&#8217;s teacher&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0Mom&#8217;s head on the dashboard. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Followed by an impromtu animal science and geography lesson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh homeschooling.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were in our van today, you would have heard the following conversation: Shelley: Hey kids, look at that cow in the trailer over there! Kids: What?\u00a0 Where?\u00a0 Oh cool! Grace: That&#8217;s not a cow.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a kangaroo! Stephen: Sorry, honey, that&#8217;s a cow.\u00a0 Kangaroos have longer ears. (Said in a wry tone of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}