{"id":1642,"date":"2011-08-20T16:26:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T16:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2011-08-20T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T16:26:46","slug":"boxing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/boxing-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won a fabulous outdoor chair recently and it was delivered in a giant cardboard box.\u00a0 I love my chair, but I was also really tickled by how much my children loved the box!<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen year-old Victoria claimed it right away, sneaking out to it with a book, a snack and some water before the other kids knew that it was in the yard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6123\/6012287042_0442fd5b32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before long, she and her fantastic new home were discovered.\u00a0 Luckily, there was a smaller (but still fun sized) box for smaller children.\u00a0 Anna moved into that one with her own book and snacks, and then Jack moved in after she tired of it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6010\/6011740037_3fdc638b53.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6142\/6012287916_34b0506513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, Victoria&#8217;s quiet reading time in her hiding spot was foiled when four year-old Alex discovered her.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6009\/6012287466_b303aac4ff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Alex, she&#8217;s a good sister!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6139\/6012287518_70d8794781.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6144\/6012287754_ec007783b5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kids hung out in their boxes for a good part of the afternoon!\u00a0 There was something about a quiet, shady secret spot on a summer day that was apparently the perfect retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the younger kids loved the boxes to death by the end of the day and they&#8217;ve since been hauled to the recycling bins.<\/p>\n<p>I think a trip to an appliance store for a refrigerator box might be in our future&#8230;.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won a fabulous outdoor chair recently and it was delivered in a giant cardboard box.\u00a0 I love my chair, but I was also really tickled by how much my children loved the box! Thirteen year-old Victoria claimed it right away, sneaking out to it with a book, a snack and some water before the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642"}],"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=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}