{"id":606,"date":"2014-10-25T19:14:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2014-10-25T19:33:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:33:36","slug":"rollerskating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Rollerskating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Meghan working at the Lego store for the afternoon, Alpha, Beta, and I decided to go roller skating.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been since before I got married, Beta has only been once, and Alpha has never been.<\/p>\n<p>We went to <a title=\"Roller World\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Roller+World+Inc\/@42.48677,-71.019447,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e372b08eb339ab:0xb4ae507c74d32449\" target=\"_blank\">Roller World in Saugus<\/a>, since Beta had been there once with friends and liked it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also not too far and had good reviews on Google.\u00a0 They offer a choice of roller skates or -blades (for a few dollars more).\u00a0 We elected to rent roller blades instead of skates, to make backwards tipping a little less likely.<\/p>\n<p>Beta took off after a moment of getting used to the skates again, while Alpha spent a few minutes just trying to stand.\u00a0 I had my own troubles but got going soon enough.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-600\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141025-roller-skating.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-600\" src=\"\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141025-roller-skating-300x156.png\" alt=\"Alpha and Beta skating together\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141025-roller-skating-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141025-roller-skating.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alpha and Beta skating together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a little while, the most amazing thing happened: the sisters started helping each other out.\u00a0 Alpha was still a little unsteady on her skates, so Beta stepped up and tried to help her out.\u00a0 They did a few laps around the floor together as Alpha slowly worked away from the wall.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen the &#8220;sisters-against-the-world-thing&#8221; in other people, but I&#8217;ve had my doubts that these two would ever bond like that.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad to see that I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of big spills (but no injuries) we decided to head out.\u00a0 We were all surprised to find that we had been there for a couple of hours &#8211; even I could have sworn it had only been an hour.\u00a0 Time flies when you&#8217;re having fun!\u00a0 The girls spent the ride home talking about going back and buying roller blades for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Meghan working at the Lego store for the afternoon, Alpha, Beta, and I decided to go roller skating.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been since before I got married, Beta has only been once, and Alpha has never been. We went to Roller World in Saugus, since Beta had been there once with friends and liked it.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=606\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rollerskating&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[55,54,56],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-father-daughters-day","tag-roller-skating","tag-saturday-afternoon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-9M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}