{"id":262,"date":"2011-02-26T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2019-11-26T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:03:49","slug":"mahito-and-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Mahito and the kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mahitoforever.com\/2011\/02\/mahito-nate-on-bike1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-265\" src=\"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mahitoforever.com\/2011\/02\/mahito-nate-on-bike1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mahitoforever.com\/2011\/02\/mahito-nate-on-bike1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mahitoforever.com\/2011\/02\/mahito-nate-on-bike1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In traditional Japan, older kids took care of, entertained, and otherwise babysat younger kids, so in our mountain, Mahito, who was generally the oldest kid around, often got stuck with a gang of littler ones. I think that&#8217;s part of the reason that he had so much fun with his friends&#8217; kids&#8211;he&#8217;d practiced for years catching (and releasing) snakes, frogs, turtles, and crayfish (actually he loved to eat the crawdads), making fence lizards into badges (living badges, I must say), and holding honey and bumble bees&#8211;sharing all of the neat stuff he&#8217;d entertained himself with in the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>So Enid Baxter Blader&#8217;s painting of Mahito and Nate feels so right to me&#8211;teaching a kid how to do something fun was right up his alley. I am so grateful to be able to share it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In traditional Japan, older kids took care of, entertained, and otherwise babysat younger kids, so in our mountain, Mahito, who was generally the oldest kid around, often got stuck with a gang of littler ones. I think that&#8217;s part of the reason that he had so much fun with his friends&#8217; kids&#8211;he&#8217;d practiced for years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mahitoforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}