{"id":782963,"date":"2012-05-21T17:35:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T00:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=782963"},"modified":"2012-05-22T08:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:12:30","slug":"innocent-recreation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/innocent-recreation\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocent Recreation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am rereading the book <em>Adventist Home<\/em> and found this quote to be great counsel: &#8220;While we restrain our\u00a0children\u00a0from worldly pleasures that have a tendency to corrupt and mislead, we ought to provide them innocent\u00a0recreation, to lead them in pleasant paths where there is no danger. No child of God need have a sad or mournful experience. Divine commands, divine promises, show that this is so. Wisdom\u2019s ways &#8216;are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.&#8217;\u201d <em>Adventist Home<\/em>, 498<\/p>\n<p>I was very happy when my husband announced the other day that we were all going to take the kayak out. I could see the sparkle in my children&#8217;s eyes and I knew that we were going to have a nice day that would provide &#8220;innocent recreation&#8221; for my children and hopefully be another nail in the coffin for worldly pleasures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Trying Out the Kayak by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/7213364820\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5239\/7213364820_b7e2bd67c5.jpg\" alt=\"Trying Out the Kayak\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"First Day of Year Out With Kayak by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/7213357676\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5032\/7213357676_bc410a0e02.jpg\" alt=\"First Day of Year Out With Kayak\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was definitely an enjoyable day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am rereading the book Adventist Home and found this quote to be great counsel: &#8220;While we restrain our\u00a0children\u00a0from worldly pleasures that have a tendency to corrupt and mislead, we ought to provide them innocent\u00a0recreation, to lead them in pleasant paths where there is no danger. No child of God need have a sad or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782965,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782963\/revisions\/782965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}