{"id":578,"date":"2009-04-06T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/big-swim-cards-twitter-vampire\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T11:45:00","slug":"big-swim-cards-twitter-vampire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/big-swim-cards-twitter-vampire\/","title":{"rendered":"big swim, cards, twitter, vampire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big swim was on Saturday. \u00a0I had intended to do 144 lengths, which equals 72 laps or 2 miles. \u00a0 I was feeling pretty good as I neared the end and decided to do 3 more laps to set a new record for myself &#8211; though I only reported 144 since some people had donated based on the number of lengths. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had to share a lane for part of the time, which was not a big deal except for when I did the backstroke &#8211; I&#8217;m all over the place on that one. \u00a0It was difficult to avoid being kicked in the head \u00a0&#8211; or kicking the other person in the head. \u00a0 Plus, no overhead flag lines were set up so it was difficult to determine when I was supposed to stop at the end of the lane. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t hit my head this time, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">fortunately<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, I got in my laps and got a ribbon for being in the 100 club. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On Sunday, I sat outside and wrote up the thank you cards. \u00a0It was a nice day for the most part, but a little windy. \u00a0I&#8217;m not used to writing that much and my hand got tired, but I&#8217;m glad I did it. \u00a0I may use email as a reminder for those that pledged but haven&#8217;t turned the money in, but a thank you card seems the right way to go at the start.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve also started Twittering. \u00a0 But, I&#8217;ve decided that all my Tweets will be in the form of Haiku. \u00a0 Just for the challenge and for something <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">different<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Finally, watched an odd vampire movie called Let the Right One In. \u00a0 \u00a0Set in Sweden, it was dubbed in <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">English<\/span> and told the story of a social misfit who befriends a 12 year old &#8220;looking&#8221; vampire &#8220;girl&#8221;. \u00a0 Strange movie &#8211; very nuanced.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s it for now&#8230; later&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-2667392899140219573?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big swim was on Saturday. \u00a0I had intended to do 144 lengths, which equals 72 laps or 2 miles. \u00a0 I was feeling pretty good as I neared the end and decided to do 3 more laps to set a new record for myself &#8211; though I only reported 144 since some people had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}