{"id":10844,"date":"2015-06-01T20:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T01:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=10844"},"modified":"2015-06-01T20:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T01:06:50","slug":"photo-of-the-day-lucas-first-soccer-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/photo-of-the-day-lucas-first-soccer-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the day: Lucas&#8217; first soccer game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>ell, I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;s no David Beckham, but you&#8217;ve never seen a happier kid than Lucas at his first ever soccer game. And look, for at least one shutter click, he was paying attention to the ball!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/17743010594\" title=\"Soccer star by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/336\/17743010594_a45566d919_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Soccer star\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five things I learned at our first soccer game:<\/p>\n<p>1. It&#8217;s hella walk from the playground where we parked at the South Gower soccer fields to where the kids actually play. Like, a kilometer walk. Apparently there are four lots, and we chose the furthest. Now we know.<\/p>\n<p>2. Lucas can eat a LOT of watermelon.<\/p>\n<p>3. This is the first level they have goalies, and the kids take turn in goal. I think I have the flu the night Lucas is in goal. I&#8217;m not built to withstand that sort of stress.<\/p>\n<p>4. The time passed a lot more quickly than I expected, and I enjoyed it more than I expected, too. Lucas didn&#8217;t stop smiling the whole night. And a few times, he actually watched the play.<\/p>\n<p>5. When it&#8217;s down near 10C and windy, worry less about the bug spray and more about bringing a blanket. I&#8217;m still shivering. Lucas, on the other hand, was in shorts and his new jersey and didn&#8217;t notice it was cool.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a fun season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;s no David Beckham, but you&#8217;ve never seen a happier kid than Lucas at his first ever soccer game. And look, for at least one shutter click, he was paying attention to the ball! Five things I learned at our first soccer game: 1. It&#8217;s hella walk from the playground where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/photo-of-the-day-lucas-first-soccer-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo of the day: Lucas&#8217; first soccer game&#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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844","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=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10846,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions\/10846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}