{"id":54940,"date":"2015-03-15T00:09:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T07:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=54940"},"modified":"2015-03-15T00:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T07:09:40","slug":"free-range-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/54940","title":{"rendered":"Free Range Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWant to see something lovely?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you&#8217;re in luck. This video clip is just a <em>taste<\/em> of a full-length feature film that&#8217;s being produced by a partnership of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsforaction.org\/watch\/free-range-child-raising-children-connected-to-the-earth-and-their-food-film-sneak-peek\/\">Films for Action<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/overgrowthesystem.com\/\">Overgrow the System<\/a>, a grassroots organization dedicated to &#8220;raising awareness around our food system and how to live a life that is more in tune with nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/107004933\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><em>Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected to the Earth &amp; Their Food<\/em> examines the connection between children&#8217;s development and their connection to the natural world and to food production.\u00a0&#8220;It celebrates the lives of families and their support networks, both rural and urban, who are engaged in linking children with nature,&#8221; explains the film&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/overgrowthesystem.com\/free-range-child-preview-2-lisa-lloyd-stowel-lake-farm\/\">website<\/a>. &#8220;And it savors the bounty of precious moments of discovery, magic, and growth that spring forth from these connections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54941\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54941\" class=\"wp-image-54941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/800px-Az_girl_in_the_garden_e-citizen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"203\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Moonsun1981 via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In case you were scrambling to jot down the fabulous quote at the beginning of the video, attributed to author and filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Valerie-Andrews\/e\/B001HOXVZO\">Valerie Andrews<\/a>, let me save you the trouble of re-playing it again:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconsciously to the soughing of the trees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to see something lovely? Well, you&#8217;re in luck. This video clip is just a taste of a full-length feature film that&#8217;s being produced by a partnership of Films for Action and Overgrow the System, a grassroots organization dedicated to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/54940\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/54940\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing_jane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}