{"id":3362,"date":"2014-11-20T16:54:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2022-03-22T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:37:25","slug":"andrew-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/20\/andrew-on-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew on Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First lap, in reach of the wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve had a lingering paranoia since moving to Minnesota: what if I can’t skate? I skated as a kid, sure, but that was long ago. Now I’m older and stiffer and more fragile. I’ll probably fall immediately and break my wrist or my head. Today I banished this demon by slowly working my way around my school’s ice rink with the 8th graders zipping past. They were a supportive crowd.<\/p>\n

Now I can’t wait to finally buy a pair of skates that fits. (There is only one pair at school, and I had to share them with a large-footed student.) I’m hopeful that Griffin will get comfortable on his skates this winter too, so this will be another winter activity we can enjoy together.<\/p>\n

The video is hardly worth watching, but I was so ridiculously proud of myself that I thought I should preserve the moment.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5qSFM08Dr8k<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a lingering paranoia since moving to Minnesota: what if I can’t skate? I skated as a kid, sure, but that was long ago. Now I’m older and stiffer and more fragile. I’ll probably fall immediately and break my wrist or my head. Today I banished this demon by slowly working my way around … Continue reading Andrew on Ice<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[9,51,23],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-milestones","tag-pictures","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7563,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/7563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}