{"id":182252,"date":"2010-01-15T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=138896"},"modified":"2010-01-15T01:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:00:24","slug":"enjoying-the-spectacular-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/182252","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the Spectacular with Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, as I drove my grandson to school, we noticed the lovely sunset streaking the eastern sky in pink, purple and gold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_138897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138897\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/1251854_golden_sky_valley.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise image: sxc.hu\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise image: sxc.hu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was spectacular as I pointed it out to Alex, and we marveled at the nice beginning to a day.<\/p>\n<p>For me,\u00a0noticing the marvels of nature around\u00a0us\u00a0is something that carries over from my childhood and a mother who was constantly\u00a0remarked on\u00a0these to her children and then her grandchildren.\u00a0 Sometimes we may have felt Mom was too mundane, that there were more important things in life as we grew into our teen years.\u00a0 But I find these early beginnings, influenced by my mother, now spread to my relationships with daughter and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>They often point out to me&#8230;or take pictures with their digital cameras of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flowers in the garden or growing wild<\/li>\n<li>Animals that visit our yard<\/li>\n<li>Snow swirling over the birdhouse roof<\/li>\n<li>Lacy patterns of ice along the small stream<\/li>\n<li>Unusual bark patterns on a tree<\/li>\n<li>A stone with layers of color<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do you and your children see when you walk in the out-of-doors?<\/strong>\u00a0 Even the most mundane can seem spectacular when you take the time to notice and pass this insight along to your children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/enjoying-the-spectacular-with-kids\/\">Enjoying the Spectacular with Kids<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, as I drove my grandson to school, we noticed the lovely sunset streaking the eastern sky in pink, purple and gold.\u00a0 Sunrise image: sxc.hu It was spectacular as I pointed it out to Alex, and we marveled at the nice beginning to a day. For me,\u00a0noticing the marvels of nature around\u00a0us\u00a0is something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}