{"id":728,"date":"2010-01-07T19:06:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2010-01-07T19:06:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:06:47","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I load another log into the woodstove, and chip ice from the rain barrel for washing the dishes, I think fondly about some prime paddling memories of 2009, and wish I had some good winter shots to share, but alas&#8211; my winter paddling excursions aren&#8217;t always the most photogenic adventures.  Like paddling across Rosario Strait to hang out with my friend Joe, on another island, or the time my friend Matt Ross and I paddled all night around San Juan island in February.  Instead, some good shots from &#8217;09, with the promise of more to come.<\/p>\n<p>2010 holds a lot of promise for fun, adventure and good coaching opportunities&#8230;first, Golden Gate Symposium will be excellent and I&#8217;m looking forward to doing my bit to help make it a success, as well as Tom Pogson&#8217;s Alaska Kayak School symposium in May&#8211;a chance to paddle waters I love, coach with other good folks, and visit home where my parents still live.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matt-Nelson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Matt-Nelson.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-843 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Matt-Nelson.JPG\" alt=\"Matt-Nelson\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I load another log into the woodstove, and chip ice from the rain barrel for washing the dishes, I think fondly about some prime paddling memories of 2009, and wish I had some good winter shots to share, but alas&#8211; my winter paddling excursions aren&#8217;t always the most photogenic adventures. Like paddling across Rosario [&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-728","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\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}