{"id":1199,"date":"2008-07-03T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T01:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2008-07-03T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T01:33:24","slug":"the-waterpup-on-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2008\/07\/03\/the-waterpup-on-day-three\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waterpup on day three!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, today, the pup hit another milestone in the whole swimming lesson crusade, for it was jump off the diving board day! She doesn&#8217;t usually have much fear to speak of, and CLEARLY loves the water and I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if she has gills to go along with her long skinny feet that look suspiciously like flippers at times &#8211; but even so, I wasn&#8217;t sure if she&#8217;d chicken out or not. After all, I have never ever jumped off a diving board in my entire life and I have exactly zero plan to do so, ever. So I wouldn&#8217;t blame her at all- though I totally would let the coaches <strike>toss her in<\/strike> give her a nudge in the right direction. I have a &#8216;mean&#8217; rep to protect, after all!<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, at the end of the lesson, everyone moved to the diving board, and after letting EVERYONE ELSE GO FIRST because she was <strike>a little scared<\/strike> being polite and waiting her turn, she couldn&#8217;t put it off any longer &#8211; and with only the slightest of hesitations, she took the plunge!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vyhp3U24QX8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vyhp3U24QX8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hurray! She also made it almost the entire way across the pull without having to stop\/grab onto Coach Billy. By the end of next week, I fully expect her to pass out of lvl 2 and into lvl 3 the following week. I also expect I&#8217;ve a long year of swim mom coming up this winter. Of course, this also means I&#8217;m eying all of those KCHS Lady Kardinal records that hang on the wall at the pool, the ones that say &#8220;M.B.&#8221; from the early 90s. I fully expect the lot of them to be replaced by the year 2016 with &#8220;J.M.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2635343656\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3005\/2635343656_fb992be160_o.jpg\" alt=\"Wheaties Form!\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I mean, just LOOK at that form though &#8211; don&#8217;t it belong on a Wheaties box? I thought so too. But no pressure, pup. No pressure at all. *grin*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2634438415\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3011\/2634438415_ab157b5bba_o.jpg\" alt=\"Captives\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2635260688\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3050\/2635260688_3ca5ee686a_m.jpg\" alt=\"savemeeeee\" width=\"240\" height=\"186\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2635343532\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3015\/2635343532_3d59e15f66_m.jpg\" alt=\"an' stay there!\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2634520315\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3103\/2634520315_4657384ef4_m.jpg\" alt=\"lockers04\" width=\"240\" height=\"175\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/2634438541\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3124\/2634438541_87ab367304_m.jpg\" alt=\"caught\" width=\"240\" height=\"182\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>PS  &#8211; anyone know where  can get a set of those *points up* for my house? And padlocks to go with them? After all, it&#8217;s a step up <a href=\"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2008\/06\/23\/downsizing\/\">from her box<\/a>, right? hahahhaha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, today, the pup hit another milestone in the whole swimming lesson crusade, for it was jump off the diving board day! She doesn&#8217;t usually have much fear to speak of, and CLEARLY loves the water and I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if she has gills to go along with her long skinny feet that look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[73,81,34,78],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primaries-family","tag-boxes","tag-lockers","tag-pup","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}