{"id":1702,"date":"2011-12-24T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T10:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2011-12-24T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T10:30:47","slug":"photo365-day-358-marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/photo365-day-358-marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo365 &#8211; Day 358 &#8211; Marbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a little boy I used to play with marbles a lot. As well as the usual games I invented my own. I used to roll them off the top of the stairs and watch them bounce down and see how far they would go. I then started adding obstacles, things that I had to try and hit. So they bounced down and then flew past or knocked down things.<\/p>\n<p>I passed this on to my kids and they loved playing. The game developed&#8230;you lost points if they didn&#8217;t make it all the way down the stairs, and you gained points for knocking down things (and we added an extra level &#8211; things you had to land on).<\/p>\n<p>The marbles were split into colours so we could see who did what. We would set either a time limit or a number of runs and the one with the highest score at the end would win.<\/p>\n<p>What was good about this is it got them away from the electronic gadgets for a bit and brought back a bit of the traditional values.<\/p>\n<p>As the Christmas break approaches, I looked in the games cupboard to dig out Trivial Pursuit. I found the bag of marbles. The kids are grown up now&#8230;I wonder if they will show their kids how to play our game, or will the electronics world have totally removed any need for those old games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marbles_450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1703\" title=\"marbles_450\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marbles_450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a little boy I used to play with marbles a lot. As well as the usual games I invented my own. I used to roll them off the top of the stairs and watch them bounce down and see how far they would go. I then started adding obstacles, things that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298],"tags":[261,1659,1844,2225],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-365","tag-competition","tag-game","tag-marbles","tag-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}