{"id":10838,"date":"2015-06-01T10:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=10838"},"modified":"2015-06-01T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:43:54","slug":"in-which-she-capitulates-to-being-a-soccer-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/in-which-she-capitulates-to-being-a-soccer-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"In which she capitulates to being a soccer mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>e are not exactly, if you haven&#8217;t yet noticed, a sporty family. I&#8217;ve made great strides (pun intended) this year to lead a less sedentary life, though, and have been encouraging the boys to be as active as possible as well. So when Lucas expressed an interest in soccer for the second year in a row, I didn&#8217;t feel like I should keep dodging the ball. And really, isn&#8217;t it some sort of parental rite of passage to sit huddled on the sidelines on a late spring evening that feels more like March than June, with skies threatening rain and mosquitoes the size of sparrows? Okay, so I&#8217;m not exactly falling over with enthusiasm, but for Lucas I will persevere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/5585070500\" title=\"100:365 Future NBA career by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5022\/5585070500_6d1e4595bf_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" alt=\"100:365 Future NBA career\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I don&#8217;t have any soccer pictures yet, so this one circa 2011 will have to suffice as our baseline. He&#8217;s got a lot of room for growth, right?)<\/p>\n<p>I post this to solicit your best tips and tricks for surviving the summer soccer seasons, oh clever and experienced bloggy peeps. All I can think to bring is a lawn chair, some bug spray, an umbrella and of course my camera. What else do we need to survive our first game &#8211; and the rest of the season, too? What are your best soccer-parenting tips?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are not exactly, if you haven&#8217;t yet noticed, a sporty family. I&#8217;ve made great strides (pun intended) this year to lead a less sedentary life, though, and have been encouraging the boys to be as active as possible as well. So when Lucas expressed an interest in soccer for the second year in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/in-which-she-capitulates-to-being-a-soccer-mom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In which she capitulates to being a soccer mom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothering-without-a-licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}