{"id":39,"date":"2009-08-12T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/celoveless.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/12\/look-ma-no-wings"},"modified":"2010-04-01T22:53:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T02:53:54","slug":"look-ma-no-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/2009\/08\/12\/look-ma-no-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Ma, no wings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0 auto 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/uploaded_images\/IMGP2105-758561.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/uploaded_images\/IMGP2105-758543.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Megan took the plunge this weekend.  She decided to give swimming without water wings a try. She took them of and held onto the edge, then said, &#8220;Hey Grandpa, watch this!&#8221;  She was going to try to float, but we convinced her to try to swim instead. Once she realized she <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">could<\/span> she would not stop!  She was swimming the length of the pool, on her own, by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0 auto 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/uploaded_images\/IMGP2103-758623.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/uploaded_images\/IMGP2103-758616.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here she comes!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0 auto 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/uploaded_images\/_IGP2086-758654.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/uploaded_images\/_IGP2086-758648.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and there she goes.  She was so proud of herself and we were very proud of her too.  I think she could have done it long ago, but just needed to work up the courage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0 auto 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/uploaded_images\/IMGP2108-758697.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/uploaded_images\/IMGP2108-758692.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a shot of Molly just because.  She still swims with her water wings for now, but I bet she&#8217;ll give them up next summer.  She&#8217;s a daredevil and doesn&#8217;t like to be left behind by her big sister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Megan took the plunge this weekend. She decided to give swimming without water wings a try. She took them of and held onto the edge, then said, &#8220;Hey Grandpa, watch this!&#8221; She was going to try to float, but we convinced her to try to swim instead. Once she realized she could she would [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-megan","category-molly","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twosixteen.com\/christie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}