{"id":8,"date":"2005-06-30T01:17:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/06\/30\/coolidge-playground-fun-despite-design"},"modified":"2006-04-29T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T01:29:07","slug":"coolidge-playground-fun-despite-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/06\/30\/coolidge-playground-fun-despite-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Coolidge Playground Fun Despite Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJellyfish are presently the main attraction at the New England Aquarium<\/a>. And, until tomorrow, you can take in Sharks 3D at their IMAX. Today Teymour and I hit up both. I especially enjoyed the leafy sea dragons, and Teymour picked up a sea star and petted a horse-shoe crab.<\/p>\n

The movie was narrated by a bitter and fairly British sea turtle. The sharks never ate a seal or baby dolphin, but I wish they had. Not the seal, but the dolphin, a creature I believe to be truly evil. Both the aquarium and the movie were a bit on the preachy conservation side, but given the audience and purpose of the institution, it’s to be expected.<\/p>\n

While passing from the main building to the theater, we stopped at the seal tank. There a small, blonde girl, no older than three or four, knocked on the glass, shouting all the while, “Wake up, baby seal!” This continued nearly five minutes. Afterward Teymour remarked that he wanted children. I expressed my desire for a baby seal. Both maintain that our individual wishes are more feasible.<\/p>\n

After what was already a full and wholesome afternoon, we went to Lane’s for dinner, which could not have been a better nor more appropriate end to the day. There he served us two nearly indistinguishable chicken and broccoli stir-fry plates, followed by two nearly indistinguishable chocolate cakes (which Teymour and I had brought, being the good guests that we are).<\/p>\n

Then we headed over to Coolidge playground<\/a>, a mere three minute walk from Lane’s appartment. Its design upheld a mix of classic and modern, which, in theory works well. It gives a clean, safe, and fun air about the playground. However, in practice, the plastic, abstract shapes just didn’t stand up to those wooden playground castles of old. The kiddie park included a spinny tulip-shaped cup ride, which reminded me of a lesson in angular momentum from my high school physics class. The same class in which we tested the science behind light-as-a-feather-stiff-as-a-board. Both left me feeling a little woozy, but smiling. The curvy, plastic zip-lines were quite trying. But they were okay if you treated the track as a three-railed set of monkey bars. Also, it helps if you pretend the wood chip ground is, in actuality, hot lava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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