{"id":50697,"date":"2023-10-06T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=50697"},"modified":"2023-10-06T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:34:11","slug":"i-was-tired-of-not-seeing-african-representation-in-toys-and-books-so-i-made-my-own-to-bring-my-kids-closer-to-our-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/06\/i-was-tired-of-not-seeing-african-representation-in-toys-and-books-so-i-made-my-own-to-bring-my-kids-closer-to-our-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was tired of not seeing African representation in toys and books so I made my own to bring my kids closer to our culture&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50698\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sheni-and-Teni.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A <\/span>Nigerian mum who was fed up of not seeing African representation in toys and books has launched her own toy line to help kids feel seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Nigerian mum who was fed up of not seeing African representation in toys and books has launched her own toy line&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sheni-and-Teni.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50699,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50697\/revisions\/50699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}