{"id":313,"date":"2019-05-30T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2019-05-30T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T18:48:08","slug":"staying-out-of-the-way-of-their-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Staying out of the way of their imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Niki has her friend Emma over after school, and Niki decides (no clue where the inspiration came from) she wants to &#8220;build a jeep&#8221;. My immediate instinct is &#8220;that&#8217;s not possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I resist saying anything, and Niki goes about her task. She asks for a little help with cutting wood, but is otherwise on her own. What&#8217;s entertaining is that her friend Emma thinks the same as I (it&#8217;s not possible), and Niki pleads with her friend to be imaginative.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I&#8217;m dumb struck; it&#8217;s a beautiful work of art that I never anticipated. Don&#8217;t doubt the power of a young person&#8217;s imagination&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3911-e1559242027812.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-315\" title=\"IMG_3911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3911-e1559242027812-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3911-e1559242027812-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3911-e1559242027812-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Niki has her friend Emma over after school, and Niki decides (no clue where the inspiration came from) she wants to &#8220;build a jeep&#8221;. My immediate instinct is &#8220;that&#8217;s not possible&#8221;. Luckily, I resist saying anything, and Niki goes about her task. She asks for a little help with cutting wood, but is otherwise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeofannika.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}