{"id":7038,"date":"2016-12-11T11:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2016-12-11T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:35:26","slug":"not-too-sore-of-course-its-usually-day-3-when-ouches-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/not-too-sore-of-course-its-usually-day-3-when-ouches-show-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Not too sore. Of course, it&#8217;s usually day 3 when ouches show up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to have a few bruises, but all ok.<\/p>\n<p>Figure skating was one of our really good smart moves. You learn how not to fall on slick surfaces and how to fall if you&#8217;re going to&#8230;which boils down to, walk like a penguin on frozen surfaces, ie, flat-footed in small steps, never set a heel down&#8230;you&#8217;ll notice hockey refs using penguin steps; b) watch for slope c) if you do hit a slope center yourself and squat as much as you can (shorter fall) and d) if you&#8217;re falling, fall&#8212;don&#8217;t fight it; keep your head upmost and put your arms out sideways or straight up like Superman taking off, so you won&#8217;t break bones. A belly flop hurts, but it rarely breaks anything if you can avoid hitting your chin. Ditto a back fall&#8212;curl like a kidney bean, hug yourself, and try to land on your curved back rather than hip or head. Note that Walker Shortbread tins make a very poor landing spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to have a few bruises, but all ok. Figure skating was one of our really good smart moves. You learn how not to fall on slick surfaces and how to fall if you&#8217;re going to&#8230;which boils down to, walk like a penguin on frozen surfaces, ie, flat-footed in small steps, never set a heel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}