{"id":2864,"date":"2011-05-28T19:54:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2011-05-28T19:54:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T18:54:12","slug":"assuming_the_position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/05\/28\/assuming_the_position\/","title":{"rendered":"Assuming the position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAdrian is working hard at learning to crawl. He starts out sitting on the floor and then tips\/turns\/folds into the crawling position, usually with much effort but also success. (Sometimes the last bit requires so much force that he hits the carpet with his face.) Then he stands there and rocks in place and complains. He is not very close to actual crawling yet &ndash; in order to lift a hand he lets himself down on his tummy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe interesting question is, why does he do it? How does he know that this is a productive position that can lead to something useful? He certainly isn&rsquo;t learning it from us, none of us crawls around on all fours. And he doesn&rsquo;t have any other crawling babies to watch either. But it is obvious that he wants to be crawling.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Crawling_position_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Crawling_position_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Crawling_position_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Crawling_position_4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian is working hard at learning to crawl. He starts out sitting on the floor and then tips\/turns\/folds into the crawling position, usually with much effort but also success. (Sometimes the last bit requires so much force that he hits the carpet with his face.) Then he stands there and rocks in place and complains. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_with_kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}