{"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 \u2013 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 \u201choly crap, that\u2019s a big ski slope.\u201d<\/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\u2019s 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 \u2013 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 \u201cStock and Dwan\u2019s Folly.\u201d On my last ride down \u2013 Mark described it as being \u201clike a comet.\u201d I couldn\u2019t see a damn thing for the flying snow \u2013 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 \u2013 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}]}}