{"id":212,"date":"2008-02-11T19:31:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/my-sons-learned-to-dive\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T19:31:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:31:29","slug":"my-sons-learned-to-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/my-sons-learned-to-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"My Sons Learned to Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the pool last weekend.  My daughter has always been a fish.  She&#8217;s been swimming since she was an infant and has always loved it.  I don&#8217;t think I ever taught her to go underwater, she just always could.  She wowed the lifeguards with her butterfly stroke and I just wondered where she ever learned that and when did she get so strong?<\/p>\n<p>My youngest decided he was going to learn to dive.  He&#8217;s a decent swimmer &#8212; but better underwater than above.  He&#8217;s so skinny that he doesn&#8217;t float very well.  He set himself up on the side of the pool and tipped forward &#8212; a lovely beginner&#8217;s dive.  He then walked around the pool and after just a little bit of encouragement jumped off the diving board.  He was so proud (so was I) &#8212; and his older brother was jealous!  <\/p>\n<p>Moments later the middle one was on the edge of the pool, trying to convince himself to dive in.  He was scared but didn&#8217;t want his little brother to be able to do something he couldn&#8217;t!  Watching his brother going into the water head first just a few more times was all it took.  Within fifteen minutes they looked like they&#8217;d been doing it all their lives.<\/p>\n<p>As tough as life is, I have to remember that these are amazing kids.  They are strong and healthy and can do incredible things.  That makes me pretty lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the pool last weekend. My daughter has always been a fish. She&#8217;s been swimming since she was an infant and has always loved it. I don&#8217;t think I ever taught her to go underwater, she just always could. She wowed the lifeguards with her butterfly stroke and I just wondered where she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,4,41,39,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}