{"id":1076,"date":"2024-04-24T17:09:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2024-04-24T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:09:50","slug":"old-timey-playground-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/2024\/04\/24\/old-timey-playground-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Old-timey playground equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We were on a walk yesterday and came upon this little playground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2944-2-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2944-2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2944-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2944-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2944-2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2944-2-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2944-2-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember teeter-totters but not one made of a log. And, of course, the universal playground sign in the US has a teeter-totter on it even though no US playground has had a teeter-totter in many years. Far too dangerous for our delicate kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it happens we were in a town a few days ago and we actually saw two kids playing on a teeter-totter. European playgrounds still have them, but, curiously, don\u2019t use them on their signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This playground also had a swing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2945-2-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2945-2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2945-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2945-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2945-2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2945-2-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2945-2-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The old kind, with a flat board seat that you could stand on and swing really high or sit on and jump off of at the top of the arc. The fun, exciting things that are too dangerous for modern kids to try. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were on a walk yesterday and came upon this little playground. I remember teeter-totters but not one made of a log. And, of course, the universal playground sign in the US has a teeter-totter on it even though no US playground has had a teeter-totter in many years. Far too dangerous for our delicate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/2024\/04\/24\/old-timey-playground-equipment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old-timey playground equipment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}