{"id":10744,"date":"2015-05-08T08:11:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=10744"},"modified":"2015-05-08T08:14:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:14:19","slug":"photo-of-the-day-walkathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/photo-of-the-day-walkathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the day: Walkathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> had the great pleasure of being the official parent council photographer for the school walkathon yesterday. Could you imagine a more perfect day for it?  We&#8217;re new to the school, but apparently the 5 km walkathon is a 15 year tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The kids had a blast &#8211; a very wet blast, in fact. It&#8217;s always a good time when one of the teachers moonlights as a volunteer firefighter!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/17227647289\" title=\"original Ottawa photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7664\/17227647289_6ff0eea18c_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"walkathon\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fun, right?<\/p>\n<p>Funny aside: we were meeting with the volunteer route marshals in the morning when someone mentioned that a construction company had unexpectedly laid fresh new sidewalks that very morning on the walkathon route. One thousand teenagers and freshly poured concrete? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>This was my first major event with a school that will probably be a part of our lives for more than a decade, and I came away with a huge smile on my face. That&#8217;s a good day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the great pleasure of being the official parent council photographer for the school walkathon yesterday. Could you imagine a more perfect day for it? We&#8217;re new to the school, but apparently the 5 km walkathon is a 15 year tradition. The kids had a blast &#8211; a very wet blast, in fact. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/photo-of-the-day-walkathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo of the day: Walkathon&#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-10744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10744"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10748,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744\/revisions\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}