{"id":1305,"date":"2022-10-02T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2022-10-02T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T19:28:09","slug":"shadow-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Ann Winschel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\"><em>Shadow tag at night\nTouching you where you are not\nFireflies and moonlight<\/em>\n\n\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was a child, on the warm evenings of late summer we played Shadow Tag.&nbsp; You &#8220;tag&#8221; someone by stepping on their shadow so you have to wait until it is full dark and then find a place with a light that throws distinct shadows.&nbsp; Moonlight is best but a street light or porch light will do.&nbsp; Too much light though and the shadows disappear, the game is ruined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game also relies on the integrity of the players.&nbsp; We were running, the shadows shifting under our feet; it would be easy to cheat, to claim contact when there was none.&nbsp; Maybe that&#8217;s why we played this game at the end of summer, not the beginning; we needed those months of full contact to build trust and to learn that not playing fair would ruin the game as surely as too much light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child, on the warm evenings of late summer we played Shadow Tag<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Pixabay Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-september-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}