{"id":1478,"date":"2011-01-28T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2020-04-04T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T17:22:49","slug":"sledding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/28\/sledding\/","title":{"rendered":"Sledding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went sledding this afternoon. Like, hardcore sledding. Sledding on a former ski slope. Sledding like God only dreams of sledding. Thanks to MS for agreeing to play hookey with me &#8211; and for providing the plan, the sleds, and the helmets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We arrived and started saying things like &#8220;holy crap, that&#8217;s a big ski slope.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1132.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1132.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2663\" title=\"IMG_1132\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a damn long walk up the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1134.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1134.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2664\" title=\"IMG_1134\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1135.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1135.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2665\" title=\"IMG_1135\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark gives the thumbs up, prior to a bumpy ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1137.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1137.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2666\" title=\"IMG_1137\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1142.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1142.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2666\" title=\"IMG_1142\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Crash, and laughter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1143.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1143.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2666\" title=\"IMG_1143\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We blazed a trail all the way to the top of the hill &#8211; where the snow was too deep for children to tread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1145.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1145.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2669\" title=\"IMG_1145\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1146.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1146.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2666\" title=\"IMG_1146\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1147.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1147.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2666\" title=\"IMG_1147\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that we agreed to name our trench &#8220;Stock and Dwan&#8217;s Folly.&#8221; On my last ride down &#8211; Mark described it as being &#8220;like a comet.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t see a damn thing for the flying snow &#8211; so I bailed out every now and then to check that no children had wandered into my path. It was *awesome*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1148.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1148.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2666\" title=\"IMG_1148\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went sledding this afternoon. Like, hardcore sledding. Sledding on a former ski slope. Sledding like God only dreams of sledding. Thanks to MS for agreeing to play hookey with me &#8211; and for providing the plan, the sleds, and the helmets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}