{"id":1061,"date":"2009-02-18T20:45:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:41:40","slug":"preschoolers-largely-inactive-at-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"Preschoolers Largely Inactive at Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study in the January\/February issue of Child Development suggests that, contrary to popular belief, preschool-aged children are often sedentary in their play, the Los Angeles Times reports. In observing a group of about 540 preschoolers from 24 preschools in South Carolina, researchers recorded and examined almost 265,000, 30-minute segments of the children&#8217;s indoor activities and nearly 30,000, 30-minute segments of outdoor activity. During the course of a typical day, 89% of children&#8217;s activities were sedentary, 8%were lightly active and 3% were moderately-to-vigorously active.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esciencenews.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/06\/amid.rising.childhood.obesity.preschoolers.found.be.inactive\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in the January\/February issue of Child Development suggests that, contrary to popular belief, preschool-aged children are often sedentary in their play, the Los Angeles Times reports. In observing a group of about 540 preschoolers from 24 preschools in South Carolina, researchers recorded and examined almost 265,000, 30-minute segments of the children&#8217;s indoor activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}