{"id":181464,"date":"2026-04-17T14:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=181464"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:27:16","slug":"weekend-open-thread-595","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=181464","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kids-before-the-internet-Tonka-trucks-and-moving-dirt.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-181465\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kids-before-the-internet-Tonka-trucks-and-moving-dirt.jpeg?resize=249%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kids-before-the-internet-Tonka-trucks-and-moving-dirt.jpeg?resize=249%2C300&amp;ssl=1 249w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kids-before-the-internet-Tonka-trucks-and-moving-dirt.jpeg?resize=276%2C333&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kids-before-the-internet-Tonka-trucks-and-moving-dirt.jpeg?resize=768%2C926&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kids-before-the-internet-Tonka-trucks-and-moving-dirt.jpeg?w=1165&amp;ssl=1 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in the last century, our counterpart to the internet involved a lot of imagination and face-to-face interactions. It was also a good way to learn how to interact with other people, to develop teamwork and leadership, to work our &#8220;hands on skills&#8221;, and so on. Unlike the internet, if you had something to say, it had to be said to someone who knew you. This increased the chances that a lesson would be learned in the School of Hard Knocks. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the last century, our counterpart to the internet involved a lot of imagination and face-to-face interactions. It was also a good way to learn how to interact with other people, to develop teamwork and leadership, to work our &#8220;hands on skills&#8221;, and so on. Unlike the internet, if you had something to say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-LcQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}