{"id":7906,"date":"2013-01-29T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2013-01-29T07:59:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T12:59:21","slug":"the-evolution-of-playgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-evolution-of-playgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution Of Playgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7908\" alt=\"Evolution of Playground\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Evolution-of-Playground.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Evolution-of-Playground.jpg 991w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Evolution-of-Playground-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Day looked at how playgrounds have changed over the years&#8230;and what the next big thing might be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After the 1970s Americans became more concerned about the safety of the playground and replaced things like merry-go rounds with the brightly coloured spongy hard plastic material you see at most playgrounds today.<\/li>\n<li>However this made playgrounds boring. And ultimately this is worse for the health of a child because this encourages them to stay inside at home, thus neglecting exercise and contributing to health issues.<\/li>\n<li>Efforts to make playgrounds more interesting since then have failed due to the fear of lawsuits.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the &#8220;Imagination Playground&#8221; which simply gives children giant blue blocks to move around, build structures with, and ultimately have fun with.<\/li>\n<li>At the Imagination Playground &#8220;play associates&#8221; &#8211; a common sight in the UK &#8211; oversee the fun to ensure that everybody is having a good time and no blocks go missing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See photos of the Imagination Playground and read more about how it works over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/family\/2013\/01\/loose_parts_are_having_a_moment_putting_the_play_back_in_playgrounds_with.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/family\/2013\/01\/loose_parts_are_having_a_moment_putting_the_play_back_in_playgrounds_with.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Day looked at how playgrounds have changed over the years&#8230;and what the next big thing might be: After the 1970s Americans became more concerned about the safety of the playground and replaced things like merry-go rounds with the brightly coloured spongy hard plastic material you see at most playgrounds today. However this made playgrounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Evolution-of-Playground.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7910,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions\/7910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}