{"id":7895,"date":"2019-08-06T07:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T11:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2019-06-26T08:05:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:05:41","slug":"skipping-games-and-school-yard-rhymes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/08\/06\/skipping-games-and-school-yard-rhymes\/","title":{"rendered":"Skipping Games and School Yard Rhymes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There have been articles dissecting the history or false history of school yard rhymes.  It seems no one can agree on what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewerhistory.org\/miscellaneous\/the-history-of-a-nursery-rhyme-ring-around-the-rosie\/\">ring around the rosie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sporcle.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/real-meaning-behind-ring-around-the-rosie\/\">means<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the13thfloor.tv\/2017\/04\/25\/seriously-the-ring-around-the-rosie-rhyme-is-not-about-plague\/\">where it came from<\/a>.  But there is still something strange and haunting about some of them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skipping Games, those jump rope games accompanied by rhymes, are explored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/playtimes\/articles\/skipping-games\">Julia Bishop on the British Library web site<\/a>.  There are some vintage video studies of these skipping games.  Though I&#8217;m sure children in the USA were skipping to different rhymes at the time, it is both nostalgic and fascinated to read about the history of something we knew well, but left behind us long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/awr6OrEJyl8?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_n_iUPzBlFU?rel=0\" width=\"750\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been articles dissecting the history or false history of school yard rhymes. It seems no one can agree on what ring around the rosie means or where it came from. But there is still something strange and haunting about some of them. Skipping Games, those jump rope games accompanied by rhymes, are explored&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/08\/06\/skipping-games-and-school-yard-rhymes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skipping Games and School Yard Rhymes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-7895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4247,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/08\/21\/little-rhymes\/","url_meta":{"origin":7895,"position":0},"title":"Little rhymes","author":"leems","date":"August 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, I found this thing I did in my Evernote: Solomon Schmidt was a solemn little boy With a compulsive obsession for mathematics lessons He eschewed any game and denied any toy In favor of savoring divisors of seven I have to share it because I used the word eschewed.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1471,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/25-lives-of-marcus-trapp-coming-soon\/","url_meta":{"origin":7895,"position":1},"title":"25 Lives of Marcus Trapp &#8211; coming soon","author":"leems","date":"June 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've got the line-up, and believe you me it was not very easy getting all this laid out. 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