{"id":881,"date":"2010-02-19T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T08:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2010-02-18T22:22:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T06:22:35","slug":"boy-activity-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/boy-activity-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Activity – Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I walked out the back door yesterday and Eric and one of his friends were having some type of improvised weapons match. I could not really tell, they dropped everything when the door opened, except for the five foot piece of 3\/4 in galvanized pipe Eric was trying to hide behind his back. I looked at the old box springs that needed to get thrown away and I saw two boys that needed a project.<\/p>\n

I went to the garage and got a large crowbar and a sledge hammer. I asked them to destroy the box springs and put it in the trash cans. They jumped on the opportunity to inflict destruction on something in a flash. They also filled two trash cans.<\/p>\n

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Destruction under way<\/p><\/div>\n

Then there was the old skateboard decks and a lawn with springs on it. They say necessity is the mother of invention. I cannot determine why there is a need to attach springs to a skateboard deck. But is was done.<\/p>\n

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Spring installation<\/p><\/div>\n

And before long they were bouncing on the skateboard deck like a 6 year old jumping on the bed. I guess being a boy necessitates creating something new and different. You have to give them credit for doing something that was was not attached to a video monitor or television. Then again, they were recording videos of the tricks they tried doing with the spring decks. A real boy activity – destruction, creation and a video to boot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I walked out the back door yesterday and Eric and one of his friends were having some type of improvised weapons match. I could not really tell, they dropped everything when the door opened, except for the five foot piece of 3\/4 in galvanized pipe Eric was trying to hide behind his back. I looked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","tag-children","odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}