{"id":7342,"date":"2018-05-01T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=7342"},"modified":"2018-05-01T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T05:45:00","slug":"the-value-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=7342","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do animals learn the skills they need to survive? How does a jaguar learn to hunt?  How does a monkey learn to escape that same jaguar?<\/p>\n<p>Play.<\/p>\n<p>Mammals play as young to develop the motions, abilities, and reactions they&#8217;ll need when they are on their own.  They wrestle, chase each other, steal food from each other, throw things; and each one of these has some connection to behaviours they&#8217;ll need in the harsh world they inhabit.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCiIVDn5bUGZUJc_15qJPjUw\">Aperture Fight Focus<\/a> that explores the value of give-and-take, ebb-and-flow free-form practice found in many arts (here, specifically, Pekiti Tirsia Kali), called &#8220;Playing with Knives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(All media reproduced under Fair Use, and with credit.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fv6mmQWJxcE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do animals learn the skills they need to survive? How does a jaguar learn to hunt? How does a monkey learn to escape that same jaguar? Play. Mammals play as young to develop the motions, abilities, and reactions they&#8217;ll need when they are on their own. They wrestle, chase each other, steal food from each other, throw things; and each one of these has some connection to behaviours they&#8217;ll need in the harsh world they inhabit. Below is a video from Aperture Fight Focus that explores the value of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=7342\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7346,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions\/7346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}