{"id":1078,"date":"2007-11-07T08:11:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T13:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/1078\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T08:53:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T13:53:14","slug":"hallucinogenic-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/hallucinogenic-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"The one with the hallucinogenic toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of voting for the <a href=\"http:\/\/2007.weblogawards.org\/news\/finalists-announced.php#more\">Weblog Awards<\/a>, for a glorious (if delusional) hour or two, I was in first (!) place.  Now that it&#8217;s the penultimate day for voting, I&#8217;m in penultimate place.  Sigh.  <a href=\"http:\/\/2007.weblogawards.org\/polls\/best-parenting-blog-1.php\" target=\"blank\">Vote today <\/a>to make sure this insidious trend doesn&#8217;t leave me in last place tomorrow, okay?<\/p>\n<p>Visiting for the first time?  Welcome! Here are a few of my favourite posts, randomly selected for your bloggy pleasure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/29\/the-big-infertility-story\/\">infertility <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/30\/the-rest-of-the-ivf-story\/\">IVF <\/a>stories;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/07\/tristans-story\/\">Tristan&#8217;s birth story <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/01\/31\/simons-story\/\">Simon&#8217;s birth story<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/zed-versus-zee-a-love-letter-to-nancy\/\">Zed versus Zee <\/a>(because I&#8217;m fiercely proud of my Canadian-ness)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/10\/18\/i%e2%80%99m-outraged\/\">I&#8217;m outraged <\/a>(because I love a good grammar debate)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/code-blue-for-daycare\/\">Code Blue for Daycare <\/a>(because it&#8217;s one of my pet topics) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/from-the-drawer-%e2%80%93-the-sweater-story\/\">The sweater story <\/a>(because it still makes me laugh at myself)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">***<\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, we talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toy-testing.org\/CTTCmm.htm\">Canadian Toy Testing Council&#8217;s <\/a>best toys for 2008.  I had also bookmarked another &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playlibrary.com\/2007\/10\/08\/12-best-toys-of-2007-from-toy-wishes-magazine\/\">Best Toys of 2007<\/a>&#8221; link a while ago, and was thinking about writing about it, but quite frankly, I didn&#8217;t find any of the toys on that list too appealing.   (I have a hard time sanctioning a list that would approve the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fisher-Price-K5054-Fisher-Price-Smart\/dp\/B000NWU9NI\/\">Fisher Price Smart Cycle<\/a>.  My 3 to 6 year olds do NOT need a stationary bike hooked up to the TV, of that I am quite sure.)<\/p>\n<p>The one toy from this particular list that I had been contemplating for the boys is one of those new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SpinMaster-6008999-Aqua-Super-Studio\/dp\/B000SOXMAS\/\">Aquadots <\/a>sets.  I&#8217;d never seen them before, but recently they&#8217;ve been everywhere and on several favourite toy lists.  Now I know why.  Apparently, they&#8217;re under massive recall, not because they&#8217;re a choking hazzard &#8211; which is what gave me pause &#8211; but because the little beads<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/news\/story.html?id=fea1bc17-81e5-4920-8181-97bbbcaf6fc1\"> release a hallucinogenic drug when swallowed<\/a>!  No wonder it was every kids&#8217; favourite toy last year!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">***<\/div>\n<p>Did I mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/2007.weblogawards.org\/polls\/best-parenting-blog-1.php\">voting <\/a>thing?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of voting for the Weblog Awards, for a glorious (if delusional) hour or two, I was in first (!) place. Now that it&#8217;s the penultimate day for voting, I&#8217;m in penultimate place. Sigh. Vote today to make sure this insidious trend doesn&#8217;t leave me in last place tomorrow, okay? Visiting for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/hallucinogenic-toys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The one with the hallucinogenic toys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}