{"id":364,"date":"2015-03-24T01:58:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T08:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2015-03-16T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:09:41","slug":"born-to-explore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/featured\/born-to-explore\/","title":{"rendered":"Born to Explore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/006144958X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=006144958X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=themushroomgrowe&amp;linkId=WQJA2PMRHQ5EVCN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cover-BornToExplore.jpg\" alt=\"Born to Explore Book Cover\" width=\"140\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Born to Explore by Richard Wiese<\/h2>\n<p>I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/reviews\/born-to-explore\/\" target=\"_blank\">a full review of this book in the eMagazine<\/a>, but wanted to mention it here for those that missed the article. \u00a0I summarized my review this way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Overall, this book brought back memories from around age ten or twelve when I made bread-on-a-stick, built an iglo0, learned to use a compass, played with electric fences,\u00a0 made lightening in my mouth, searched for fossils, determined the height of\u00a0 trees, tracked animals and tried various activities that Wiese doesn\u2019t mention.\u00a0 If I had had this book at that age,\u00a0 I would also would have been likely to try coke bottle fishing, building a bat house, creating a ninja hood, cooking in a paper bag and more.\u00a0 Of course, when I was that age there were no computers or video games to provide me with canned entertainment and distract me from learning useful things.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The book is primarily aimed at kids that spend too much time indoors. \u00a0If you know a kid like that, it would make a great gift!<\/p>\n<h2>Please Share<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born to Explore by Richard Wiese I wrote a full review of this book in the eMagazine, but wanted to mention it here for those that missed the article. \u00a0I summarized my review this way: &#8220;Overall, this book brought back memories from around age ten or twelve when I made bread-on-a-stick, built an iglo0, learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}