{"id":728,"date":"2015-10-02T18:13:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=728"},"modified":"2015-10-02T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T23:13:59","slug":"free-range-children-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2015\/10\/02\/free-range-children-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-Range Children in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Atlantic<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\" target=\"_blank\">CityLab<\/a> website has an interesting article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/commute\/2015\/09\/why-are-little-kids-in-japan-so-independent\/407590\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Are Little Kids in Japan So Independent?&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Here in the Unites States some call children who are allowed to travel and\/or play without much adult supervision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/parenting\/wp\/2015\/05\/26\/what-exactly-is-this-whole-free-range-kid-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;free-range kids.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0As a child growing up in the 1970s I remember a time when &#8220;free-range kids&#8221; were just &#8220;kids.&#8221; I wonder if the U.S. can ever return to that state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic&#8216;s CityLab website has an interesting article: &#8220;Why Are Little Kids in Japan So Independent?&#8221;\u00a0Here in the Unites States some call children who are allowed to travel and\/or play without much adult supervision &#8220;free-range kids.&#8221;\u00a0As a child growing up in the 1970s I remember a time when &#8220;free-range kids&#8221; were just &#8220;kids.&#8221; I wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22213],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-etc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}