{"id":1435,"date":"2003-01-25T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-26T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/01\/25\/1435\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T12:29:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:29:25","slug":"1435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/01\/25\/1435\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I got up at 6:30 and, after a little wait, drove to Lexington, where I stripped down to my swimsuit and a 10th Planet t-shirt, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soky.org\/Lexington Plunge.htm\">jumped in an outdoor pool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I yelled on the way in, and then got out, because it was very cold. There were still pieces of ice floating in it. I felt like I was getting out pretty quickly, but on the version in my aunt&#8217;s camcorder, I&#8217;m moving roughly as fast as you&#8217;d expect someone to move when his lower spinal functions have just shut down.<\/p>\n<p>My uncle Cliff, meanwhile, moved like a man possessed. By speed. This is most likely because he went in with Cole and Clint, my eight- and nine-year-old (I think) cousins, and had getting them out of the water as his chief concern. He used to play football, and can still put an impressive spiral on a smallish human being.<\/p>\n<p>It was wonderful. Also, painful. I wish I had another year at college now, just so I could make all my friends go back with me next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I got up at 6:30 and, after a little wait, drove to Lexington, where I stripped down to my swimsuit and a 10th Planet t-shirt, then jumped in an outdoor pool. I yelled on the way in, and then got out, because it was very cold. There were still pieces of ice floating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exertion","category-landmarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}