{"id":1596,"date":"2011-04-28T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2011-04-28T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T16:34:11","slug":"peabody-mother-solves-swing-shortage-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/peabody-mother-solves-swing-shortage-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Peabody mother solves swing-shortage problem!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1597\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/swingsm2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1597\" title=\"swingsm2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/swingsm2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/swingsm2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/swingsm2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middle East-like tensions defused for now!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Peabody, MA &#8211; \u00a0Trudi&#8217;s quick thinking halted a potentially violent toddler showdown at a local playground on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about her heroic actions, Trudi replied, &#8220;it came down to simple mathematics. There were three kids and two swings, so a little sharing saved the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trudi&#8217;s actions were not entirely without controversy, however.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Moore, a mother witnessing the swing sharing commented, &#8220;well&#8230; it worked out fine this time, but I wonder about the future implications of such a short-sighted solution. What happens when these two find themselves embroiled in a spirited game of musical chairs? Will they now feel empowered to throw the rules out the window and to share that one remaining chair? Do we then give them both a trophy? All I&#8217;m saying is that it&#8217;s a really slippery slope. I&#8217;m not entirely against sharing, but it&#8217;s usually a bad idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peabody, MA &#8211; \u00a0Trudi&#8217;s quick thinking halted a potentially violent toddler showdown at a local playground on Wednesday. Asked about her heroic actions, Trudi replied, &#8220;it came down to simple mathematics. There were three kids and two swings, so a little sharing saved the day.&#8221; Trudi&#8217;s actions were not entirely without controversy, however. Emily Moore, &#8230; <a title=\"Peabody mother solves swing-shortage problem!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/peabody-mother-solves-swing-shortage-problem\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Peabody mother solves swing-shortage problem!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[90,91,89],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abigail","tag-pacifist-sympathies","tag-scalloped-potatoes","tag-swing-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}