{"id":1676,"date":"2009-11-21T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notnick.com\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2009-11-21T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T22:43:07","slug":"the-first-snow-day-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"The first snow-day of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew, Greg &amp; I went to Xscape in Glasgow, for a bit of Skiing. I drove, Andrew settled down in the back with book. (They&#8217;re Poppy&#8217;s glasses btw)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15112009132.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1675\" title=\"15112009132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15112009132-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"15112009132\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8447_1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8447_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1677 alignnone\" title=\"IMG_8447_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8447_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8447_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8447_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8447_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8447_1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8444_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1679\" title=\"IMG_8444_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8444_1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8444_1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8444_1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8444_1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8444_1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8452_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1680\" title=\"IMG_8452_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8452_1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8452_1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8452_1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8452_1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8452_1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried skiing for a while too. The kit fella asked me if I could ski. I said it had been a while, but yes (I skied for a week, when I was 12, on a school trip, and haven&#8217;t been on skis since). Could I control my turns, and stop? &#8220;Sure&#8221; I said. Standing with my skis on at the top of the slope, I started to question if it was one of my better ideas. Andrew gave me a quick refresher at the top of the slope, right before I fell flat on my face.\u00a0 After a couple of runs, I was kinda doing ok- or at least, I wasn&#8217;t falling over on every turn. Think I&#8217;ll stick to boarding though..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew, Greg &amp; I went to Xscape in Glasgow, for a bit of Skiing. I drove, Andrew settled down in the back with book. (They&#8217;re Poppy&#8217;s glasses btw) I tried skiing for a while too. The kit fella asked me if I could ski. I said it had been a while, but yes (I skied &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/?p=1676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The first snow-day of the season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,52,60,111],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-front","tag-andrew","tag-greg","tag-ski","tag-xcape"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}