{"id":239025584,"date":"2012-07-29T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T11:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=239025584"},"modified":"2012-07-29T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T11:59:44","slug":"unleash-our-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=239025584","title":{"rendered":"Unleash our kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY WILL DOIG, Salon<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOne study diagrammed the shrinking distances that four generations of one family\u2019s kids were allowed to stray from home: six miles in 1919, one mile in 1950, half a mile in 1979, and 300 yards today.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nShe says the \u201cPopsicle test\u201d is a convenient way to use free-roaming kids to gauge a city\u2019s health. \u201cIf an 8-year-old child can go get a Popsicle from the store by themselves and finish it before they get home, that city is probably thriving,\u201d says Skenazy. Such an act is possible only in a walkable, reasonably safe environment that has a good pedestrian infrastructure and where retail and residences are relatively intermixed.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCompare that to the U.S., &#8230; the Pittsburgh dad who was charged with child endangerment for letting his 9- and 6-year-olds play in a park; the Florida community that banned anyone under 18 from being outdoors without a chaperone.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIt says something that we perceive walking down the street to be a greater risk to kids than speeding along in two tons of steel and glass, when in actuality, four-fifths of kids killed by cars are in those cars. No parent, however, is going to be accused of endangering their child by driving them to school, but the parent who lets them walk might be<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/21\/paranoid_parents_kill_cities\/\">https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/21\/paranoid_parents_kill_cities\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY WILL DOIG, Salon &#8230; One study diagrammed the shrinking distances that four generations of one family\u2019s kids were allowed to stray from home: six miles in 1919, one mile in 1950, half a mile in 1979, and 300 yards today. &#8230; She says the \u201cPopsicle test\u201d is a convenient way to use free-roaming kids &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=239025584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unleash our kids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239025584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239025584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239025584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239025584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239025584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239025584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239025584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}