{"id":19935,"date":"2014-05-01T06:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T02:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=19935"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:33:29","slug":"balancing-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/05\/01\/balancing-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some grade 5 and 6 students have been taking part in Odyssey of the Mind, an after school activity that challenges them with creative problem solving. Some of these challenges are verbal. For example, I asked them to use &#8220;catch&#8221; as many ways as possible in two minutes and students responded with the likes of &#8220;catch a cold&#8221; and &#8220;ketchup&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Other challenges are physical, such as the picture you see of Jackson and Jade. Given a can of baked beans and a ruler to act as a fulcrum and lever, the students were told to balance as many of the given objects as possible. (They&#8217;re celebrating because they successfully balanced them all.)<\/p>\n<p>Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some grade 5 and 6 students have been taking part in Odyssey of the Mind, an after school activity that challenges them with creative problem solving. Some of these challenges are verbal. For example, I asked them to use &#8220;catch&#8221; as many ways as possible in two minutes and students responded with the likes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":19934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-5","category-grade-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}