{"id":9407,"date":"2016-12-25T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T20:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2016-12-25T21:44:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T20:44:53","slug":"interconnected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=9407","title":{"rendered":"Interconnected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early 1990s I bought a book by leading Norwegian ethnobotanist Ove Arbo H\u00f8eg (and Helga Hjort) &#8220;Barkeb\u00e5t og kongleku&#8221;, all about games children played with plants&#8230;at least one of these games I remember teaching my kids&#8230;using the flowering stems of Plantago major (Greater plantain \/ storblad or kjempe)&#8230;and the same game turned up in Japan!!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9409\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Plantago_barnelek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9409 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Plantago_barnelek-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Plantago_barnelek\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Plantago_barnelek-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Plantago_barnelek.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the Norwegian book on childrens&#8217; games using plants, &#8220;Barkeb\u00e5t og Kongleku&#8221;, an illustration of two games using the flowering stems of Plantago major! The top one I taught my own kids, Robin Arne Barstow and Avellana Wood&#8230;hook the stems over one another and pull&#8230;the winner continues.. The game below is called &#8220;sl\u00e5 kjempe&#8221; (beat the giant) and here the idea is to knock the top off the opponent&#8217;s stalk&#8230;.this has given the name to the plant, kjempe in Norwegian..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9410\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/H\u00f8eg_Hjorth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9410 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1050832-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"P1050832\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1050832-300x207.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1050832.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230;and in Nagoya, Japan I met Kevin Cameron and his daughter Mona who had a great little book to learn wild plants and here we see exactly the same game :)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/H\u00f8eg_Hjorth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/H\u00f8eg_Hjorth-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"H\u00f8eg_Hjorth\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/H\u00f8eg_Hjorth-218x300.jpg 218w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/H\u00f8eg_Hjorth-300x413.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/H\u00f8eg_Hjorth.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early 1990s I bought a book by leading Norwegian ethnobotanist Ove Arbo H\u00f8eg (and Helga Hjort) &#8220;Barkeb\u00e5t og kongleku&#8221;, all about games children played with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2016],"tags":[2020,693,2017,2018,2019,694],"class_list":["post-9407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-games","tag-barkebat-og-kongleku","tag-greater-plantain","tag-groblad","tag-kjempe","tag-ove-arbo-hoeg","tag-plantago-major"],"views":2882,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9428,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions\/9428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}