{"id":535,"date":"2009-03-12T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:13:29","slug":"a-box-of-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"A box of goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mcas-002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312116344738309826\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mcas-002-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The magic of a good teacher-naturalist lies in live props, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight was the children&#8217;s program at our monthly Audubon meeting and this guy had the kids enthralled with his box of tricks&#8230; tree frogs and turtles and the hugest boa constrictor I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Every kid had the chance to (gently) touch each animal and that goes a long way to keeping their attention, of course. I wish that our chapter did more outreach to kids in the community to get them interested in nature, but this program for kids once a year is the best we can manage, usually.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magic of a good teacher-naturalist lies in live props, I think. Tonight was the children&#8217;s program at our monthly Audubon meeting and this guy had the kids enthralled with his box of tricks&#8230; tree frogs and turtles and the hugest boa constrictor I&#8217;ve ever seen. Every kid had the chance to (gently) touch each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A box of goodies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}