{"id":725,"date":"2009-12-17T13:32:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2009-12-17T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:32:16","slug":"a-wintery-return-to-the-cockpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/a-wintery-return-to-the-cockpit\/","title":{"rendered":"A wintery return to the cockpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well this short paddle was just the second since surgery on my back, the first was a chilly night paddle and this one was in 6 degrees of frost and around 8cm of snow&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iargalon.nu\/PC171484.jpg\" alt=\"Cetussnow\" \/><br \/>\nWe started at 0700&#8230;. in the dark with frozen fingers &amp; toes, I slipped into the cockpit and remembered I still had my wellington boots over my drysuit&#8230;&#8230; a tight fit but workable \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nThe sunrise made the effort worthwhile&#8230;..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iargalon.nu\/PC171508.jpg\" alt=\"sunrisecold1\" \/><br \/>\nSome areas were starting to freeze over, this little fishy will not be getting any bigger, I think his name is Findus&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iargalon.nu\/PC171514.jpg\" alt=\"fish\" \/><br \/>\nThe chocolate dispenser on the foredeck was frozen, as was the skeg \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iargalon.nu\/PC171515.jpg\" alt=\"frozen\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the end of our little outing, what a great way to start the day<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iargalon.nu\/PC171518.jpg\" alt=\"2kayaks\" \/><br \/>\nAs you can see, the end markers on my Cetus are still attached, The decklines &amp; elastics were frozen solid&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Have a great Christmas, and remember, the best cure for Christmas blues is&#8230;&#8230; to paddle<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this short paddle was just the second since surgery on my back, the first was a chilly night paddle and this one was in 6 degrees of frost and around 8cm of snow&#8230;&#8230; We started at 0700&#8230;. in the dark with frozen fingers &amp; toes, I slipped into the cockpit and remembered I still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}