{"id":619,"date":"2011-05-11T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenbrammell.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2011-05-11T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:21:39","slug":"jump-and-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/2011\/05\/11\/jump-and-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump and Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbor came by this morning to warn me about this weekend. They are having a kids birthday party and the place will be noisy and busy with a couple dozen kids running and screaming across the yards. I remember how it as last year, and can&#8217;t believe its already been year since that birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>There is just something about 20 eight and nine year olds running around that gives me a headache just thinking about it. That is way too much energy and noise for me. But for a lot of people, throwing kids birthday parties is like a competitive sport. They hire Party and Event Rentals companies to handle all the details for their kid and the friends, and then the parents don&#8217;t have to do much but run the video recorder and chit chat with the other parents who come to the party.<\/p>\n<p>The smart ones hire out the Food Catering, the entertainment and the clean up. The parties in my neighborhood have come a long way since the days when I was a kid and thought that a couple hours in the mall arcade with unlimited tokens was the ultimate party. Nowadays they have<br \/>\nBounce House Rentals, clowns, face painters, carnival games and all kinds of entertainment options. Its good to be a kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbor came by this morning to warn me about this weekend. They are having a kids birthday party and the place will be noisy and busy with a couple dozen kids running and screaming across the yards. I remember how it as last year, and can&#8217;t believe its already been year since that birthday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/2011\/05\/11\/jump-and-climb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jump and Climb&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-family-issues","category-house-and-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}