{"id":407,"date":"2004-04-05T06:40:54","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T06:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:33","slug":"res_ipsa_loqutor_the_thing_speaks_for_itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Res Ipsa Loqutor (the thing speaks for itself)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A50301-2004Apr4.html\" target=\"browser\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Very young children who watch television face an increased risk of attention deficit problems by school age, a study has found, suggesting that TV might overstimulate and permanently &#8220;rewire&#8221; the developing brain. <\/p>\n<p>For every hour of television watched daily, two groups of children &#8212; ages 1 and 3 &#8212; faced a 10 percent increased risk of having attention problems at age 7.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t had TV (with brief periods of cable connection) since my oldest son was born. I can&#8217;t tell you how much I recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Littlest Guy just invented a game involving a chessboard, Lego parts, and dice today and taught it to me. That&#8217;s what kids do when they aren&#8217;t sucking on the glass teat (sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islets.net\/essays\/glassteat.html\" target=\"browser\">Harlan<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: Very young children who watch television face an increased risk of attention deficit problems by school age, a study has found, suggesting that TV might overstimulate and permanently &#8220;rewire&#8221; the developing brain. For every hour of television watched daily, two groups of children &#8212; ages 1 and 3 &#8212; faced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}