{"id":2331,"date":"2017-12-20T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med-asap.sites.unc.edu\/?page_id=2331"},"modified":"2017-12-20T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:16:56","slug":"about-symbolic-play","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/materials-1\/about-symbolic-play\/","title":{"rendered":"About Symbolic Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"x_MsoNormal\">What is Symbolic Play?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2017\/09\/S8-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Children and teacher playing with pretend food\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2017\/09\/S8-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2017\/09\/S8-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2017\/09\/S8-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2017\/09\/S8.jpg 1766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Symbolic play involves pretending or using imagination. At a simple level, when a toddler pretends to stir in a bowl that is actually empty, she is pretending that there is something in the bowl. Or when a preschooler picks up a cardboard tube and swings it in front of him like a sword, he is pretending that the cardboard tube is something different from what it actually is. A kindergartner who swoops around pretending to be a superhero defeating the bad guys is also showing symbolic play skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Symbolic Play? Symbolic play involves pretending or using imagination. At a simple level, when a toddler pretends to stir in a bowl that is actually empty, she is pretending that there is something in the bowl. Or when a preschooler picks up a cardboard tube and swings it in front of him like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/materials-1\/about-symbolic-play\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about About Symbolic Play\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22711,"featured_media":0,"parent":2191,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2331","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2331\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}