{"id":792,"date":"2006-11-03T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/03\/kids-and-vending-machines\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:45:46","slug":"kids-and-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/03\/kids-and-vending-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids and Vending Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">Boing Boing<\/a> and it reminded me so much of our own kids (well, Cael mostly) that I am stealing all of the content.  The gist of the series of links is the same:  parent is standing right there, kid somehow still manages to get inside one of those stuffed animal vending machines with the claw, fire department gets called, hilarity ensues.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures alone are worth the click, these kids are hamming it up from inside the machines.  It&#8217;s not that hard for anyone who knows Cael to imagine him in there, grinning through the glass.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/offbeat\/2006-10-25-boy-vending-spongebob_x.htm\">First<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4570201.stm\">Second<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/01\/08\/offbeat.boy.stuck.ap\/index.html\">Third,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/12057691\/\">Fourth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this post on Boing Boing and it reminded me so much of our own kids (well, Cael mostly) that I am stealing all of the content. The gist of the series of links is the same: parent is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/03\/kids-and-vending-machines\/\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-cM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}