{"id":193,"date":"2006-03-09T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2006-03-09T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T17:22:00","slug":"corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3974.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3974.jpg','popup','width=700,height=466,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3974-tm.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 3974\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3983.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3983.jpg','popup','width=700,height=466,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_3983-tm.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 3983\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would love to have a fancy hardwood barn and dollhouse for the kids to play with. But they are expensive! I think I made a smart decision to recycle some boxes from Costco, fashion a good working barn from them and gesso it for the kids. One morning soon, we&#8217;ll get around to &#8220;decorating&#8221; it. Until then, it&#8217;s been getting good use as it is. <\/p>\n<p>Since I can&#8217;t have my own Hanoverian gelding, I bought a pretty one at Target. It&#8217;s a Schleich and I named it Claus. When the boys ask me to play, I tap it across the rug in a meditative half pass left, then right, then I a collected canter around the rug&#8217;s perimeter. Chas will pick up a heifer and follow my little program. Ford picks up the Velociraptor and shrieks, thrusting it through the upstairs doorway, attacking the little brown rabbit.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it: the farm play &#8220;corner,&#8221; which actually is sitting atop Chas&#8217; birth quilt, atop the chaise in the living room. But we carry it all over, sometimes outside. See more corners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/86662290@N00\/pool\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would love to have a fancy hardwood barn and dollhouse for the kids to play with. But they are expensive! I think I made a smart decision to recycle some boxes from Costco, fashion a good working barn from them and gesso it for the kids. One morning soon, we&#8217;ll get around to &#8220;decorating&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-home","category-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}