{"id":2844,"date":"2010-10-04T06:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2022-03-26T22:35:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T03:35:52","slug":"35-things-to-know-to-raise-active-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/35-things-to-know-to-raise-active-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"35 Things to Know to Raise Active Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2846\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raising fit kids is one of my &#8220;soap box&#8221; issues, so I was delighted when my friends Dr. Adam Shafran (a.k.a. Dr. Fitness) and Lee Kantor (a.k.a. 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