{"id":41602,"date":"2013-11-25T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/childs-play-expert-dr-tara-woodyer-of-portsmouth\/"},"modified":"2013-11-25T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:14:11","slug":"childs-play-expert-dr-tara-woodyer-of-portsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/childs-play-expert-dr-tara-woodyer-of-portsmouth\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Child&rsquo;s play expert Dr Tara Woodyer, of Portsmouth University, said: &ldquo;Play has frequently been overlooked as irrelevant to how people come to understand the world yet it&rsquo;s precisely this apparent banality, the taken for granted nature of play that allows its role to go unchallenged. &quot;Toys \u2013 and how children play with them \u2013 are not just a response to the world, they help shape our culture. &quot;The role of action figure dolls has been unduly neglected especially given the enormous academic attention focused on their female equivalent Barbie.&rdquo; The study will include tracing the history and development of the action figure toy in British homes and the toys&rsquo; role in wider geopolitical climates and cultures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/10457425\/Scientists-to-spend-500000-examining-how-toys-shape-opinions-of-war.html\">Scientists to spend \u00a3500,000 examining how toys shape opinions of war &#8211; Telegraph<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child&rsquo;s play expert Dr Tara Woodyer, of Portsmouth University, said: &ldquo;Play has frequently been overlooked as irrelevant to how people come to understand the world yet it&rsquo;s precisely this apparent banality, the taken for granted nature of play that allows its role to go unchallenged. &quot;Toys \u2013 and how children play with them \u2013 are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-41602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-aP0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41602","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=41602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}