{"id":446,"date":"2023-12-18T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2023-12-18T18:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:09:01","slug":"advent-day-18-have-a-snowball-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/18\/advent-day-18-have-a-snowball-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 18 &#8211; Have a Snowball Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thank you to my December self for choosing a simple activity for Monday morning, on the week before Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elf arrived in the morning with a basket of snowballs and a sign challenging them to a snowball fight.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9487-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"elf on the shelf snowball fight\" class=\"wp-image-448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9487-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9487-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9487-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9487-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9487-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wooden sign from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeyespyclub.com\">Eye Spy Club<\/a>, snowballs from Dollarama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When my kids were a little younger, I used to stuff a few of these snowballs in their stockings to help fill them up.  As a result, we&#8217;ve amassed a small collection.  Just enough so the kids could burn off a bit of energy this morning with a snowball fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to my December self for choosing a simple activity for Monday morning, on the week before Christmas. The elf arrived in the morning with a basket of snowballs and a sign challenging them to a snowball fight. When my kids were a little younger, I used to stuff a few of these snowballs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/18\/advent-day-18-have-a-snowball-fight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Day 18 &#8211; Have a Snowball Fight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,6,8],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-activityadvent","tag-kidsadvent","tag-mailegadvent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}