{"id":160,"date":"2005-05-21T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2005-05-21T04:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-21T10:23:00","slug":"you-gotta-walk-before-you-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/21\/you-gotta-walk-before-you-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Walk Before You Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC News<\/a> reported on a new shoe that&#8217;s supposed to get kids exercising again. What&#8217;s the carrot? TV time.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The shoe &#8211; dubbed Square-eyes &#8211; has a unique insole that records the amount of exercise a child does and converts it into television watching time.<\/p>\n<p>One button on the shoe &#8211; the brainchild of a student at west London&#8217;s Brunel University &#8211; records the number of steps taken by the child over the day.<\/p>\n<p>Another transmits this information to a base station connected to the TV.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4555989.stm\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC News reported on a new shoe that&#8217;s supposed to get kids exercising again. What&#8217;s the carrot? TV time. The shoe &#8211; dubbed Square-eyes &#8211; has a unique insole that records the amount&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,82,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-healthy-living","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}