{"id":1028,"date":"2010-08-13T05:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T05:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2010-08-13T05:22:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T05:22:10","slug":"firefly-magic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/firefly-magic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Here&#8217;s a great educational activity to do with groups of kids, especially at night.\u00a0 Have each child bring a flashlight.\u00a0 Explain to the kids that fireflies use their lights to communicate with each other, and that they look for the other fireflies who are flashing the same patterns.\u00a0 Give each child a pattern to flash with his or her flashlight, and have them try to find the person with the matching code.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong>And for a fun firefly craft, check out this wonderful lantern you can make to go along with &#8220;The Very Lonely Firefly&#8221; over at <a href=\"http:\/\/thelongthread.com\/?p=4159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Long Thread<\/a>!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/belladia.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341cc08553ef0115712632f8970c-800wi\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great educational activity to do with groups of kids, especially at night.\u00a0 Have each child bring a flashlight.\u00a0 Explain to the kids that fireflies use their lights to communicate with each other, and that they look for the other fireflies who are flashing the same patterns.\u00a0 Give each child a pattern to flash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,69,93,150,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}