{"id":655721,"date":"2010-02-05T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=121393"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:18:46","slug":"jamaica-u-s-a-wisdom-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/655721","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica, U.S.A.: Wisdom of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I learned that children are naturally giving and spontaneous and if we are not willing to accept some of the &#8216;wild energy&#39; of our children and if we continue to treat our schools as warehouses, then we should be prepared to accept the death of their imagination&#8221;: Jamaican litblogger <a href=\"http:\/\/geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/what-i-learned-fromchildren.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FEVfd+%28Geoffrey+Philp%27s+Blog+Spot%29\">Geoffrey Philp<\/a> sharesthe valuable lessons that children have taught him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I learned that children are naturally giving and spontaneous and if we are not willing to accept some of the &#8216;wild energy&#39; of our children and if we continue to treat our schools as warehouses, then we should be prepared to accept the death of their imagination&#8221;: Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp sharesthe valuable lessons that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KA9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757340,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655721\/revisions\/757340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}