answer:I wouldn’t spend too much energy on it. All articles point to this, which has conveniently left out any links to outside sources to confirm what she is saying. There is nothing else that confirms this that I see. But here’s the thing – if you have kids, you’ll find that in the past 12+ years, any old-school playground (wooden, etc) has been replaced by the most pedestrian, boring horseshit sad excuse for a playground. Every single one. There are some very small, economically-struggling and forgotten towns where you might find some old rusty spinning thing. Companies apparently don’t even make these things any longer, because everyone wants the same old cookie-cutter nonsense that every single other town has. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone had welded some old, rickety thing in hopes of putting off having to replace the playground equipment – and to hold off any lawsuits. But this story is too easy. Nobody is going to be surprised. It’s a story that is perfect for facebook circle jerks, where everyone can express their outrage at the loss of childhood and the rise of the nanny state. We’re all so anxious to jump in with “when I was a kid” stories, that there needn’t be any real sources in the story. It doesn’t necessarily have to be true. There could be some kernel of truth in that blog post, or it could be all shit. But it doesn’t matter if it serves its purpose. National Review and Reason online can get their people in a lather about stuff they are already in a lather about. And we can all tell our stories to each other about the character building experiences of falling off a spinning playground ride.