{"id":1402,"date":"2009-04-24T23:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T04:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2009-04-24T23:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T04:05:05","slug":"i-love-the-smell-of-cholrine-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2009\/04\/24\/i-love-the-smell-of-cholrine-water\/","title":{"rendered":"I love the smell of cholrine water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lane Ropes, found at sxc.hu courtesy of Albertip, <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love swimming.\u00a0 When I was much younger, we had a pool in the backyard.\u00a0 I practically lived in it all summer long.\u00a0 I even invented my own unique way of swimming, I called it the Froggie because I would kick my legs out like a frog.\u00a0 Imagine my disappointment years later when I learned that the “Froggie” was actually called the Breaststroke, and I hadn’t invented it at all. *S*<\/p>\n

We moved when I entered 6th grade, but the new neighborhood had a community pool & membership was one of the neighborhood perks.\u00a0 Throughout middle school and high school I swam on the community team in the summer.\u00a0 I was ok, it was hard to compete against kids who were swimming year round in the public school system, but I managed to have fun anyway.<\/p>\n

I’ll never forget the year I came in 7th place in Divisionals for my 50 meter breaststroke.\u00a0 To me, it might as well have been first place. It meant that I was the 7th fastest kid in the biggest age group (15-18) in the whole division. I missed out on Regionals by just a fraction of a second, but I didn’t DQ, and I gave it my best against kids who had way more practice time. Awesome.<\/p>\n

So why this trip down memory lane?<\/p>\n

This past week, my kids started swim lessons.\u00a0 The smell of the cholrine water takes me back.\u00a0 The lane ropes beckon.\u00a0 Oh how I long to slice through the water.\u00a0 Yes, I’m sure my old swim coach would find this highly ironic, but… I actually want to swim laps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love swimming.\u00a0 When I was much younger, we had a pool in the backyard.\u00a0 I practically lived in it all summer long.\u00a0 I even invented my own unique way …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family_life","category-reminiscing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}