I have a niece. She’s not quite four months.<\/p>\n
She got a St. Patrick’s Day card from her uncle. (It’s so weird<\/i> to refer to myself as an “uncle.” I know it’s the right word, but damn, I do not<\/b> feel avuncular.) The card was… delightfully bonkers, if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n
What to top that? I’m thinking that she needs these<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Young Mad Scientist Alphabet Blocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yes, she can learn the alphabet. And she can learn how to take over the world!<\/p>\n “Each block measures 1 3\/8 inches square and depicts six mad science concepts and the appropriate letters.”<\/p>\n Where were toys like that when I<\/i> was growing up?<\/p>\n “U is for Underground Lair” indeed!<\/p>\n I shall have to ponder this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a niece. She’s not quite four months. She got a St. Patrick’s Day card from her uncle. (It’s so weird to refer to myself as an “uncle.” I know it’s the right word, but damn, I do not feel avuncular.) The card was… delightfully bonkers, if I do say so myself. What toContinue reading “On Educational Toys For Children”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[627,396],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-education","tag-silly","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}