{"id":169,"date":"2008-06-12T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=169"},"modified":"2008-06-12T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T21:01:39","slug":"yellow-house-homeschool-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Yellow House Homeschool Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was our annual trip to the fairground park, carefully timed to coincide with nice weather and a school day.\u00a0 We thought we would never manage to get the two together!\u00a0 So our day started kind of like this:\u00a0 Mike complaining about how boring all the rides were and insisting that he&#8217;d be taking Antonia on this Boomerang thing before she&#8217;s very much older, never mind the fact that you have to be 15 cms taller than she is now.\u00a0 So here he is, waiting to be turned upside-down at Mach speed on the Boomerang and he would like us to think he is waving!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mike-on-boomerang.jpg\" title=\"mike-on-boomerang.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mike-on-boomerang.jpg\" alt=\"mike-on-boomerang.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after lunch, it became apparent that the rides were so &#8216;boring&#8217; that he would stick with the position of official photographer instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/coccinelle.jpg\" title=\"coccinelle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/coccinelle.jpg\" alt=\"coccinelle.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/radjah-river.jpg\" title=\"radjah-river.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/radjah-river.jpg\" alt=\"radjah-river.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nothing would induce him to abandon his new vocation and get back on a ride.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/teacups.jpg\" title=\"teacups.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/teacups.jpg\" alt=\"teacups.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for me, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve had so much fun since last year.\u00a0 Of course, we didn&#8217;t have to queue once, and if we wanted to take a ride several times, we just stayed on it.\u00a0 There was only about one other kid in the entire park of Antonia&#8217; age, though there were a couple of coach loads of middle school kids on their end of year treat.\u00a0 The place was so quiet that the attendants were willing to watch Antonia while we went on &#8216;big kid&#8217; rides.\u00a0 We managed a couple, before Mike discovered his new purpose in photography.\u00a0 Antonia was thrilled with the whole day, and, at the end, exhausted. Between us, we took over a hundred rides.\u00a0 It was great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was our annual trip to the fairground park, carefully timed to coincide with nice weather and a school day.\u00a0 We thought we would never manage to get the two together!\u00a0 So our day started kind of like this:\u00a0 Mike complaining about how boring all the rides were and insisting that he&#8217;d be taking Antonia &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yellow House Homeschool Treat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}