{"id":1031263,"date":"2026-08-29T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1031263\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:16:27","slug":"i-took-my-kids-to-the-new-obama-center-playground-heres-my-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1031263\/","title":{"rendered":"I Took My Kids to the New Obama Center Playground. Here&#8217;s My Review."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two long slides, accessible by foot or wheel, connect the upper tree-themed play structures to the lower lagoon-themed play areas. <\/p>\n<p>The slides are shaded by a canopy, which is nice since they are metal and would probably get fairly hot when the sun is out. <\/p>\n<p>While we were visiting, an attendant was monitoring slide usage, but didn&#8217;t seem to be guiding the children or other visitors in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: these slides are fast. My son got off and said, &#8220;That was fast. Too fast.&#8221; But then he went down them three more times. My husband, who also took a turn, almost went over the side of one of them and certainly <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/reference\/how-to-treat-a-pulled-muscle\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pulled something<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two long slides, accessible by foot or wheel, connect the upper tree-themed play structures to the lower lagoon-themed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1031264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[27278,412500,9361,960,37594,167346,21374,316,5386,1818,193078,18996,34011,135911,259655,412499,1176],"class_list":["post-1031263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-activity","tag-beautiful-native-garden","tag-campus","tag-chicago","tag-contemporary-art","tag-different-age","tag-eye","tag-home","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-jackson-park","tag-kid","tag-level","tag-many-thing","tag-multitude","tag-new-obama-center-playground","tag-summer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117179697581566800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}