{"id":135611,"date":"2026-08-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/10\/opinion-its-time-to-stop-teaching-the-fun-out-of-childhood-and-let-kids-be-kids-give-them-a-ball-and-get-out-of-their-way-the-hechinger-report\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:00:00","slug":"opinion-its-time-to-stop-teaching-the-fun-out-of-childhood-and-let-kids-be-kids-give-them-a-ball-and-get-out-of-their-way-the-hechinger-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/10\/opinion-its-time-to-stop-teaching-the-fun-out-of-childhood-and-let-kids-be-kids-give-them-a-ball-and-get-out-of-their-way-the-hechinger-report\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: It\u2019s time to stop teaching the fun out of childhood and let kids be kids. Give them a ball and get out of their way &#8211; The Hechinger Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxQWmthXzM3MU5EZHZqdnBZWWhnb1pXTW1XY3NqMVN2Vi1OZTNtc0VNTm1FejJkNXdwODNENDJva011WkhnVkItTFBLSUFCSmNtYjV5MnYxckhSeUpuT3ZDUU0xWEt0eWNrakZpS2lncXdVMWg0ekxTTWlqN19CWlJSSmdWV3lJMV9uSzk0c2d4NUVyRDU5YXdMOGhsRFhFVXUzRkFmYzNISQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">OPINION: It\u2019s time to stop teaching the fun out of childhood and let kids be kids. Give them a ball and get out of their way<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Hechinger Report<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION: It\u2019s time to stop teaching the fun out of childhood and let kids be kids. Give them a ball and get out of their&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/10\/opinion-its-time-to-stop-teaching-the-fun-out-of-childhood-and-let-kids-be-kids-give-them-a-ball-and-get-out-of-their-way-the-hechinger-report\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}