{"id":100427,"date":"2017-08-22T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=189029"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:07:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T15:07:19","slug":"bringing-back-street-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/22\/bringing-back-street-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing back street kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-189030\" src=\"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/streetkids.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/>Just spent some time with a friend. He lives in a safe neighborhood, so I asked if there were any kids for his kids (they&#8217;re young) to play with. Apparently not really.<\/p>\n<p>In this country today we have problems with racial and wealth inequality. There are huge debates about how we address these issues. And they don&#8217;t seem like they are going away any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><b>But huge numbers of Americans adults grew up on the mean streets of the 1980s.<\/b> We know there is a solution to childhood social isolation, because many of us grew up playing on streets, rather than being shepherded on &#8216;play dates.&#8217; This is also an issue which most people agree on as a problem. We can solve this.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F08%2F22%2Fbringing-back-street-kids%2F&amp;linkname=Bringing%20back%20street%20kids\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F08%2F22%2Fbringing-back-street-kids%2F&amp;linkname=Bringing%20back%20street%20kids\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F08%2F22%2Fbringing-back-street-kids%2F&amp;linkname=Bringing%20back%20street%20kids\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F08%2F22%2Fbringing-back-street-kids%2F&amp;title=Bringing%20back%20street%20kids\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/08\/22\/bringing-back-street-kids\/\" data-a2a-title=\"Bringing back street kids\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just spent some time with a friend. He lives in a safe neighborhood, so I asked if there were any kids for his kids (they&rsquo;re young) to play with. Apparently not really. In this country today we have problems with racial and wealth inequality. There are huge debates about how we address these issues. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100428,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100427\/revisions\/100428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}