{"id":751,"date":"2016-07-08T21:22:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=751"},"modified":"2016-07-08T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T21:23:34","slug":"week-1-science-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 &#8211; Science rocks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s officially the first day of summer vacation. It\u2019s too bad that the parents are working, but we\u2019ve tried to find some fun and interesting things for Those Johnston Kids to do this summer. \u00a0First stop, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariosciencecentre.ca\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.ontariosciencecentre.ca\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1468093049431000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGwYNEqeoF7p7ONM3u_qSYO6V2kkQ\">Ontario Science Centre<\/a>. Science centres \u2013 which you may remember from the blog last summer \u2013 are a popular stop for us. So what could be more fun than an entire week at one?<\/p>\n<p>Well, after a nice weekend of camping up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capecrokerpark.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.capecrokerpark.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1468093049431000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEySV62KrSDYwmz3ydQhRSu6UbLWg\">Cape Croker park<\/a>and a late arrival home, no one was all that excited to go Monday morning. It was too early. They were too tired. It was going to be too boring. So this is what they looked like on Day 1:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160704_080406.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-752\" src=\"http:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160704_080406-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160704_080406\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160704_080406-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160704_080406-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, science will always win out! When I picked them up Monday, the first thing they said was not \u201cHi\u201d or \u201cWe missed you\u201d, but \u201cWe\u2019re going back tomorrow!\u201d And this is what they looked like on Day 2:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160705_080106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-753\" src=\"http:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160705_080106-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160705_080106\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160705_080106-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160705_080106-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I can entice them to write their own posts, but here are few things they got to do this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn about weather and make clouds!<\/li>\n<li>Grow geodes!<\/li>\n<li>Make a volcano!<\/li>\n<li>See an IMAX movie!<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Visit the exhibits before the Centre officially opens!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Learn about circuits and make their own light-up greeting cards!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Best. Camp. Ever. (For now.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s officially the first day of summer vacation. It\u2019s too bad that the parents are working, but we\u2019ve tried to find some fun and interesting things for Those Johnston Kids to do this summer. \u00a0First stop, the Ontario Science Centre. Science centres \u2013 which you may remember from the blog last summer \u2013 are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 1 &#8211; Science rocks!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}