{"id":18831,"date":"2014-01-15T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=18831"},"modified":"2014-01-15T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T19:01:35","slug":"rain-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=18831","title":{"rendered":"Rain dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get a newsletter from the preschool each week, and the picture\u00c2\u00a0below, which was in last Friday&#8217;s edition,\u00c2\u00a0caught my attention. Unbeknownst to me, Avery and her classmates had done a rain dance (it<em> is<\/em> really dry here!) and\u00c2\u00a0even made\u00c2\u00a0Native American headbands for the event. Her teachers explained more of what happened:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We discussed as a group the symbolism of the blue and turquoise colors (water) and feathers (wind) in their headbands. After watching a recording of a Native American rain dance on YouTube, the children decided they needed some instruments to carry out their own dance. Wearing their headbands and shaking maracas and other instruments symbolic of rain, the children danced together on the playground, chanting for rain and raising their hands up to the heavens in order to bring on the rain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The class also talked about the importance of rain &#8211; in particular, how rain helps trees and plants grow and enables us to eat their\u00c2\u00a0their fruits and vegetables. Avery explained this in video over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/raindance-at-school.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18832\" title=\"raindance at school\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/raindance-at-school.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/raindance-at-school.png 317w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/raindance-at-school-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NTgTdEKs1SI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"530\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get a newsletter from the preschool each week, and the picture\u00c2\u00a0below, which was in last Friday&#8217;s edition,\u00c2\u00a0caught my attention. Unbeknownst to me, Avery and her classmates had done a rain dance (it is really dry here!) and\u00c2\u00a0even made\u00c2\u00a0Native American headbands for the event. Her teachers explained more of what happened: We discussed as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-83-two-kids-january-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18831"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18861,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions\/18861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}