{"id":39877,"date":"2014-12-26T01:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T01:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-news-van-kit-struck-her-as-really-quite\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:20:43","slug":"the-news-van-kit-struck-her-as-really-quite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-news-van-kit-struck-her-as-really-quite\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39877 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-news-van-kit-struck-her-as-really-quite\/attachment\/39878\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nh60io07Rc1qescblo1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The news van kit struck her as really quite different. She does not have children, so the change in LEGOs represented by the Friends line was startling: \u201cIn 1981,\u201d explains Giordano, \u201cLEGOs were \u2018Universal Building Sets\u2019 and that\u2019s exactly what they were\u2026for boys and girls. Toys are supposed to foster creativity. But nowadays, it seems that a lot more toys already have messages built into them before a child even opens the pink or blue package. In 1981, LEGOs were simple and gender-neutral, and the creativity of the child produced the message. In 2014, it\u2019s the reverse: the toy delivers a message to the child, and this message is weirdly about gender.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news van kit struck her as really quite different. She does not have children, so the change in LEGOs represented by the Friends line was startling: \u201cIn 1981,\u201d explains Giordano, \u201cLEGOs were \u2018Universal Building Sets\u2019 and that\u2019s exactly what they were\u2026for boys and girls. Toys are supposed to foster creativity. But nowadays, it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-39877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-anb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39879,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39877\/revisions\/39879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}