{"id":3523,"date":"2011-10-12T19:54:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2011-10-12T19:54:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:54:03","slug":"i_will_be_endangering_your_kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/i_will_be_endangering_your_kids\/","title":{"rendered":"I will be endangering your kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNot satisfied with recklessly endangering my own children, I am planning to put all of Ingrid&rsquo;s friends in mortal danger on Sunday during Ingrid&rsquo;s birthday party. I will be giving them all whistle blowers (gasp!) &ndash; thereby totally violating important safety rules, I&rsquo;ve now learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/eu\/8816601\/Children-to-be-banned-from-blowing-up-balloons-under-EU-safety-rules.html\"><i>The Telegraph<\/i><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe EU toy safety directive [&#8230;] states that balloons must not be blown up by unsupervised children under the age of eight, in case they accidentally swallow them and choke.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nWhistle blowers, that scroll out into a a long coloured paper tongue when sounded &ndash; a party favourite at family Christmas meals &ndash; are now classed as unsafe for all children under 14.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAny parents who object better not bring their kids here.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Adrian_on_kitchen_counter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">Raised surface! Near stove! Knives! Power outlet! Glass items!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not satisfied with recklessly endangering my own children, I am planning to put all of Ingrid&rsquo;s friends in mortal danger on Sunday during Ingrid&rsquo;s birthday party. I will be giving them all whistle blowers (gasp!) &ndash; thereby totally violating important safety rules, I&rsquo;ve now learned from The Telegraph. The EU toy safety directive [&#8230;] states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[759,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_with_kids","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","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=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}