{"id":20,"date":"2003-01-24T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2003-01-24T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-08-26T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T12:50:09","slug":"i-have-a-story-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/24\/i-have-a-story-to\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a story to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a story to share today.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I was out checking the rink, as any normal rink-obsessed human being would be doing, and I was just heading back inside when I heard a soft fluttering sound coming from the rink behind me.  I turned around, expecting to see a plastic bag blowing by, and was shocked to see a duck flat on it&#8217;s butt spinning away from me on the ice.  I can only assume that from the air in the dark, when you are a duck that flies in the face of convention (ha) and don&#8217;t migrate south, the rink might look like a body of water.  So the noise I heard was the sound of a duck&#8217;s feathered ass making contact with the ice at -30C or so.  Harvey was with me and it was likely just as well that he didn&#8217;t notice anything until the duck had almost finished sliding unceremoniously to the edge of the rink and decided with a honk of embarassment to get the heck out of there.  Then we both watched him fly off looking for some other backyard rink.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a story to share today. Last night I was out checking the rink, as any normal rink-obsessed human being would be doing, and I was just heading back inside when I heard a soft fluttering sound coming from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/24\/i-have-a-story-to\/\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}