{"id":41,"date":"2014-12-22T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-12-18T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:50:25","slug":"camping-and-camp-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/featured\/camping-and-camp-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping and Camp Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a book the other day, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0007DYAWO\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0007DYAWO&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=themushroomgrowe&amp;linkId=DSIZXOYOFN4A4FTF\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Golden Book of Camping and Camp Crafts<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0It was published in 1959 and I got it when I was around 8 or 9. \u00a0My happiest memories from that age and younger are all about outdoor adventures. \u00a0Whether it was playing cowboys and Indians (I was always an Indian), discovering a secret place in the woods or relaxing to the smell of fresh cut grass, I was always outdoors. \u00a0The book added new elements &#8211; dressing the part as an Indian, building forts of all descriptions (often involving a shovel and a large hole in the ground), making treasure maps, experimenting with a compass and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Those tracking the situation\u00a0say that today&#8217;s kids aren&#8217;t getting outdoors enough to remain healthy. \u00a0Richard Louv in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/156512605X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=156512605X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=themushroomgrowe&amp;linkId=LGDLYZMI35RI25XT\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Last Child in the Woods<\/em><\/a> quotes Paul, a fouth grader as saying:&#8221;I like to play indoors better, &#8217;cause that&#8217;s where the electrical outlets are.&#8221; \u00a0To the eight-year-old me, that would have been a concept from a different planet.<\/p>\n<p>Where do the\u00a0kids you know prefer\u00a0to be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a book the other day, \u00a0The Golden Book of Camping and Camp Crafts. \u00a0It was published in 1959 and I got it when I was around 8 or 9. \u00a0My happiest memories from that age and younger are all about outdoor adventures. \u00a0Whether it was playing cowboys and Indians (I was always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","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\/41","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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}