{"id":20425,"date":"2011-08-16T09:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=20425"},"modified":"2011-11-07T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T16:38:24","slug":"standard-unit-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/standard-unit-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Unit Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always found it strange that in most relatively nice homes with soft fabrics and natural materials, you walk into a play area for the kids and it feels like you’ve been transported into an alternative universe where only oddly colored plastic is permitted. Not that there’s anything wrong with plastic stuff for kids (I’m certainly no expert on the subject), but why not add in some regular wooden blocks, just to offset the crazy colors and random imagery? Maybe with a little less visual input, a child’s imagination will have to work a bit harder. One would hope so. If you’re a new godmother\/father, bookmark this for a gift idea when the little one is 3+.
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\nSixty natural finished, smooth-sanded hardwood blocks are packaged in a handsome, wooden storage crate for easy storage.<\/p>\n

Dimensions: 5.25″ x 12.5″ x 15″ Packaged
\nRecommended Ages: 3+ years<\/p>\n

\"Standard<\/p>\n

Check out the Architectural Unit Blocks<\/a> too, as they’ve a little more detailing. <\/p>\n

Also available from Amazon<\/a> ($47.99). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always found it strange that in most relatively nice homes with soft fabrics and natural materials, you walk into a play area for the kids and it feels like you’ve been transported into an alternative universe where only oddly colored plastic is permitted. Not that there’s anything wrong with plastic stuff for kids (I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,221],"tags":[140,449],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/melissa-doug-block-set-21.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20426,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20425\/revisions\/20426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}