{"id":217,"date":"2005-02-21T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2005-02-21T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T02:00:04","slug":"sled-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/02\/21\/sled-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"sled saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If coop <a href=\"http:\/\/coop.deadsquid.com\/index.php?p=448\" title=\"I hate to tell you, it doesn't get better as time goes on\">is old<\/a>, what does that make me? I&#8217;m curious in that &#8220;oh look, a cement truck&#8221; kind of way. I&#8217;d say <a href=\"http:\/\/axe.deadsquid.com\/\">axe<\/a> is not allowed to answer, but he wouldn&#8217;t listen, and where would be the fun in not getting smacked down after leaving the door wide open?<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night <a href=\"http:\/\/coop.deadsquid.com\/\" title=\"cheese? what about the fried clams?\">coop<\/a> and Kristina had their annual tobogganning party at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccpd.org\/parks.html\" title=\"we called it &#8220;the pits&#8221; when we lived nearby\">Bruce Pit<\/a> in Nepean. I actually managed to go down the hill a number of times, usually with little control, but a much higher success rate than a <a href=\"http:\/\/glory.deadsquid.com\/zoe\/fotos\/123103_m\/PC310012.JPG\" title=\"just look at the size of the hill, and you'll understand why I wiped three times\">previous attempt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were a variety of plastic and metal conveyances to send us merrily down the hill, and I think we all managed to get snow in places you wouldn&#8217;t expect to get it. After a couple of face-first runs where I learned not to use my knees or rib cage as a shock absorber, I managed to have a number of successful runs. I think I was still running up the hill at the end, but really can&#8217;t recall. It was a good time, and the only damage I did was aggravating a separated shoulder from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prouf.ca\/\" title=\"All-weather fun\">Phauleeg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the sledding, we headed back to kris &#038; coop&#8217;s to enjoy some tasty beverages (<a href=\"http:\/\/absolut.com\/raspberri\" title=\"The bottle's red, the booze isn't\">Absolut Raspberri<\/a>, tonic, and frozen raspberries is recommended), a bite to eat, and some gorgeous pictures from Bora Bora. Oh, and there may have been a good conversation or two in there, too.<\/p>\n<p>A very nice way to spend a Saturday evening. Thanks, guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If coop is old, what does that make me? I&#8217;m curious in that &#8220;oh look, a cement truck&#8221; kind of way. I&#8217;d say axe is not allowed to answer, but he wouldn&#8217;t listen, and where would be the fun in not getting smacked down after leaving the door wide open? Saturday night coop and Kristina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}