{"id":139,"date":"2008-09-27T14:13:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/apple-has-learned-the-importance-of-play-we-should-too\/"},"modified":"2008-09-27T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:13:57","slug":"apple-has-learned-the-importance-of-play-we-should-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/apple-has-learned-the-importance-of-play-we-should-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Has Learned The Importance of Play. We Should Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;joyful playful exploration is critical to learning. Rote learning and memorization is less effective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I believe that a big part of the reason that Apple has been successful is that they figured out long ago that their products had to have the elements of joyful exploration that are the hallmarks of great toys<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/whydoeseverythingsuck.com\/2008\/09\/apple-has-learned-importance-of-play-we.html\">Hank Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/whydoeseverythingsuck.com\/2008\/09\/apple-has-learned-importance-of-play-we.html\">short article<\/a> is worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;joyful playful exploration is critical to learning. Rote learning and memorization is less effective. &#8230; I believe that a big part of the reason that Apple has been successful is that they figured out long ago that their products had to have the elements of joyful exploration that are the hallmarks of great toys &#8211;Hank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8],"tags":[167,190,40],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-quotes","category-usability","tag-apple","tag-learning","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}