{"id":7617,"date":"2016-07-18T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:23:55","slug":"daily_618_-_building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/daily_618_-_building\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 618 &#8211; building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0618_foam_blocks.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nWe went to the Ahhaa science centre. The kids mostly ran around on their own, with friends, but somehow towards the end of the day we all ended up in a construction play area with foam bricks. Adrian wanted to build a house with me. <\/p>\n<p>We each brought different things to the process. Adrian decided the overall shape and size of the house. I made sure it stood up, by setting the bricks in a bond &#8211; on his own Adrian would have just piled them up in straight stacks. Together we decided where to put doors and windows. Finally Adrian added an element of randomness by adding odd pieces here and there when he felt like it.<\/p>\n<p>Initially it was just us two in a corner of the construction area, while other groups of kids were building elsewhere. There was some competition for bricks and several times it looked like we would have to stop because we were out of materials. But over time kids left and new ones arrived. Whenever someone left, everyone who stayed had a new opportunity to grab more bricks from the ruins of their buildings, so we kept going. In the end we had an impressively-sized house, large enough for Adrian to walk in, incorporating all the bricks in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the Ahhaa science centre. The kids mostly ran around on their own, with friends, but somehow towards the end of the day we all ended up in a construction play area with foam bricks. Adrian wanted to build a house with me. We each brought different things to the process. Adrian decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,780,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-estonia","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","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=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}