{"id":325,"date":"2014-04-24T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-09-04T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T19:17:54","slug":"decordova-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"deCordova Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids are on April break, I took the week off to be with them, and Meghan is at work.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great time to do something out of the ordinary, especially since it&#8217;s a bright sunny day.<\/p>\n<p>I know &#8211; something educational!\u00a0 Something cultural!\u00a0 Art!<\/p>\n<p>I brought my little heathens to the <a title=\"deCordova Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.decordova.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">deCordova Museum<\/a>&#8216;s sculpture park.\u00a0 (The main museum is closed while they prepare for the summer exhibits.)\u00a0 It&#8217;s a huge outdoor exhibit, so they can run around and get some fresh air while taking in some mind-broadening experiences.<\/p>\n<p>When I take the girls to art museums I coax them to pose like the artistic subjects (when possible &#8211; modern art gets a little hard).\u00a0 It makes them focus on the art at hand as well as learn to use their bodies, but best of all they think it&#8217;s fun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-326\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140424_113334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-326\" src=\"\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140424_113334.jpg\" alt=\"Kids posing with sculpture\" width=\"700\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140424_113334.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140424_113334-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alpha and Beta posing with some modern art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This was our first time there, but I think we&#8217;re going to get a membership now.\u00a0 I had to drag the kids away and bribe them with lunch at a restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids are on April break, I took the week off to be with them, and Meghan is at work.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great time to do something out of the ordinary, especially since it&#8217;s a bright sunny day. I know &#8211; something educational!\u00a0 Something cultural!\u00a0 Art! I brought my little heathens to the deCordova Museum&#8216;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;deCordova Museum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[107,199,165,79,81,200],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-alpha","tag-art","tag-beta","tag-kids","tag-things-to-do","tag-what-the-hell-is-that-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-5f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}