{"id":4337,"date":"2010-07-28T06:18:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2010-07-23T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T17:29:23","slug":"compelling-parenting-question-of-the-day-cartoon-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/compelling-parenting-question-of-the-day-cartoon-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Compelling parenting question of the day: Cartoon characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>hen Lucas showed an early preference for the Muppet Show, I was delighted.  I could have hours of the Muppet Show on in the background and not only is it not annoying, but I&#8217;d actually enjoy watching it with him.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, his tastes have taken a turn for the worse.  He now loves, unfathomably, Max and Ruby.  And Caillou.  I don&#8217;t think there is a more annoying character in television landscape than Caillou.  (Although, I used to hate Wonderpets, too, and that one has grown on me lately.)<\/p>\n<p>Time for a parenting poll:  what is the most annoying kids&#8217; TV character?  Pedantic Dora?  Whinging Caillou?  Psychedelic In the Night Garden? <\/p>\n<p>What say ye, oh parents of the boob-tube addicted preschool set?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lucas showed an early preference for the Muppet Show, I was delighted. I could have hours of the Muppet Show on in the background and not only is it not annoying, but I&#8217;d actually enjoy watching it with him. Sadly, his tastes have taken a turn for the worse. He now loves, unfathomably, Max &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/compelling-parenting-question-of-the-day-cartoon-characters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Compelling parenting question of the day: Cartoon characters&#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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toddler-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","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=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4350,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}