{"id":38,"date":"2013-01-01T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/mud-day-first-of-many\/"},"modified":"2015-11-14T13:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T18:24:24","slug":"mud-day-first-of-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/mud-day-first-of-many\/","title":{"rendered":"MUD DAY&#8230;first of many!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we were preparing to come to Malawi, our mentors, who spent 40 years in Zambia, fondly reminisced about their &#8220;Dirtiest Days&#8221; with their two kids.&nbsp; We can see why.&nbsp; We thought our kids got dirty during the dry season, but now that rainy season is here, we can go through 3 outfits per kid and 2 baths a day!&nbsp; (We strive not to make that a typical day, mind you).<\/p>\n<p>Although our kids would love every day to be that dirty, it&#8217;s not fun for the parents to do that every day.&nbsp; Hence, &#8220;Mud Day&#8221; at the Owen house:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let the kids get as dirty as they please<\/li>\n<li>Let the kids experiment with water and dirt <\/li>\n<li>Let loose as parents<\/li>\n<li>Have fun <i>with them<\/i> in the process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This video shows our very first Mud Day.&nbsp; This was unscheduled&#8230;you can&#8217;t always plan these things, sometimes they just happen!&nbsp; Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"320\" height=\"266\" id=\"BLOG_video-9209df261410e405\" class codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/get_player\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"flvurl=http:\/\/redirector.googlevideo.com\/videoplayback?id%3D9209df261410e405%26itag%3D5%26source%3Dblogger%26app%3Dblogger%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%253Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1449660328%26sparams%3Did,itag,source,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D78CF458B6EB5D29721C43C04B5CD901C73C3B33B.6AECC609CB940E99A94E790FD8505D76C9106FA9%26key%3Dck2&amp;iurl=http:\/\/video.google.com\/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D9209df261410e405%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DCr38Wb3ic3-lDWNuuetCkQNSKEc&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger\"><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were preparing to come to Malawi, our mentors, who spent 40 years in Zambia, fondly reminisced about their &#8220;Dirtiest Days&#8221; with their two kids.&nbsp; We can see why.&nbsp; We thought our kids got dirty during the dry season, but now that rainy season is here, we can go through 3 outfits per kid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-becky","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanandbecky.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}