{"id":1376,"date":"2008-10-08T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2016-08-14T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:41:53","slug":"nearly-wordless-wednesday-first-skating-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/nearly-wordless-wednesday-first-skating-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday:  First skating lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re Canadian; of course I had to sign the boys up for skating lessons!<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d never been on skates before.  The morning started out with a lot of this:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/2924784492\/\" title=\"DSC_2269 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3218\/2924784492_f5073a6d01_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" alt=\"DSC_2269\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After a while of crawling around on the ice, Tristan had progressed to this:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/2924785680\/\" title=\"DSC_2280 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3153\/2924785680_3209ef8a52_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" alt=\"DSC_2280\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I honestly never expected him to get to this during his very first lesson:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/2923933809\/\" title=\"DSC_2296 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3167\/2923933809_5b30223990_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" alt=\"DSC_2296\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>But, most of the time was spent more like this: <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/2923932517\/\" title=\"DSC_2276 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3112\/2923932517_9fc24071e9_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" alt=\"DSC_2276\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Simon was content to stay more or less like this:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/2923934447\/\" title=\"DSC_2300 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3040\/2923934447_d889b84c53_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" alt=\"DSC_2300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Guess which one said he wants to sign up for hockey lessons next year, and which one said he thinks he&#8217;ll stick with swimming?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re Canadian; of course I had to sign the boys up for skating lessons! They&#8217;d never been on skates before. The morning started out with a lot of this: After a while of crawling around on the ice, Tristan had progressed to this: I honestly never expected him to get to this during his very &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/nearly-wordless-wednesday-first-skating-lessons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday:  First skating lessons&#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":[11,23,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-canadianisms","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","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=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11978,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/11978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}