{"id":1960,"date":"2013-09-23T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2013-09-23T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T20:56:18","slug":"when-is-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"When Is It Too Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we overwhelm our kids with so many activities and sports these days?<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it enough any more just to be a student doing homework? Instead, they play on In House teams and Travel Teams, we sign them up at age 5 for fear of being left out or not getting into the right school or getting that scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>We run ourselves rag-ed getting from school to dinner to practice! I long for riding my bike, playing baseball and watching Leave it to Beaver.<\/p>\n<p>Am I officially old?<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we overwhelm our kids with so many activities and sports these days? Isn&#8217;t it enough any more just to be a student doing homework? Instead, they play on In House teams and Travel Teams, we sign them up at age 5 for fear of being left out or not getting into the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raising-kids","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}