{"id":189092,"date":"2026-03-02T18:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=189092"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:07:18","slug":"todays-quote-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clarissasblog.com\/2026\/03\/01\/stolen-laughter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stolen Laughter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I herded the church kids into the art room so they could play together. Twenty minutes later, I discovered them staring in complete silence at their phones.<\/p>\n<p>The only kid without a phone was mine. She was drawing a picture of her cat surrounded by cat toys, colorful blankets, and bowls.<\/p>\n<p>This is a new thing, by the way. I vividly remember kids playing and running around in the art room. It\u2019s like in that fairy tale where an evil magician stole the children\u2019s laughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stolen Laughter: I herded the church kids into the art room so they could play together. Twenty minutes later, I discovered them staring in complete silence at their phones. The only kid without a phone was mine. She was drawing a picture of her cat surrounded by cat toys, colorful blankets, and bowls. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-41\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-NbS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189093,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189092\/revisions\/189093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}