{"id":3144,"date":"2011-07-22T22:25:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T02:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2011-07-27T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T19:16:45","slug":"just-keep-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/just-keep-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Keep Swimming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn passed Red Cross Learn to Swim Level 1 today!\u00a0 I am so impressed with the amount of hard work she put in to her class these past two weeks &#8211; her water confidence has improved by leaps and bounds, and just today she was jumping off of our backyard pool&#8217;s diving board with only a life vest on.\u00a0 (She started out with two noodles.\u00a0 Then one.\u00a0 Then realized that she could probably do it with no noodles.\u00a0 Which she did.\u00a0 Repeatedly.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3147\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3147\" title=\"20110722_swimming3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming3.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn jumping off the diving board!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And Anna&#8217;s new-found confidence in the water, while exhausting, is fun too.\u00a0 She &#8220;pedals&#8221; all around the pool in her little yellow Puddle Jumper life vest, &#8220;as fast as I can pedal!&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3145\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3145\" title=\"20110722_swimming1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna &quot;pedaling&quot; around the pool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As hard as it is to spend the better part of the morning getting ready for and at swimming lessons every single day for four solid weeks, I think it&#8217;s well and truly worth it!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3146\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3146\" title=\"20110722_swimming2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722_swimming2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Please ignore the jungle of weeds in the background...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn passed Red Cross Learn to Swim Level 1 today!\u00a0 I am so impressed with the amount of hard work she put in to her class these past two weeks &#8211; her water confidence has improved by leaps and bounds,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-fun","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}