{"id":194,"date":"2005-12-18T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2005-12-18T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T19:17:08","slug":"pond-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"pond hockey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today i went out to play pond hockey for the first time this season.  hooray!  this is why i love winter.  i got in about an hour of exercise and it felt like playing.  i love the feel of moving on the ice in skates.  i love that you don&#8217;t have to wear tons of clothing because just moving around warms you up.  i love that my friends are generous enough to shoot the puck to me occasionally in the hopes that it might connect with my stick and that i might then have some idea of what to do with it.  i love that i now have knee pads so that falling is <em>almost<\/em> fun and definitely less painful (assuming that i fall on my knees and not some other, less well padded parts).  i love how frost forms on my eyelashes and the brim of my knitted cap.  i love the feel of support when i put my skates on and snug up the laces.  i love being that much taller when i&#8217;m on my skates.  it took me awhile to convince myself to go out today&#8211;it had been awhile since i&#8217;d had the chance to remind myself of how much i enjoyed this activity and&#8230; it was 10 degrees&#8230; and i had presents to wrap&#8230; but i&#8217;m so glad i went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today i went out to play pond hockey for the first time this season. hooray! this is why i love winter. i got in about an hour of exercise and it felt like playing. i love the feel of moving &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sporty-stuff","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}