{"id":277,"date":"2006-06-03T07:07:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2006-06-03T07:07:47","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T14:07:47","slug":"i-cattleprod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"I, Cattleprod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"swimmingFord.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/swimmingFord.JPG\" width=\"499\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I sat on a little wooden bench this morning, Chas on my lap, beside the swim class. I decided that Ford needed a nudge. He wouldn&#8217;t get away with negotiating or opting out of the coach&#8217;s instructions. It took preparation, but I was ready for the work. <\/p>\n<p>So we took a jog this morning, both kids in the twinner, and I coached him on the challenges he&#8217;d have to face. I told him it would be difficult, but that he would do it anyway. After all, that&#8217;s the definition of a challenge. We talked about all the things he could do once he was able to swim: we could kayak on Town Lake, ride in Papi&#8217;s pirough in the bay. <\/p>\n<p>Lo! Did it help. Spastically joyful after each effort, Ford squirmed all over the pool steps and shouted silliness. He made me so proud, I think I wore a smile for hours afterwards. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"proud.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/proud.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat on a little wooden bench this morning, Chas on my lap, beside the swim class. I decided that Ford needed a nudge. He wouldn&#8217;t get away with negotiating or opting out of the coach&#8217;s instructions. It took preparation, but I was ready for the work. So we took a jog this morning, both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}