{"id":563,"date":"2010-01-22T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2013-11-12T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T23:03:31","slug":"january-at-the-duck-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/january-at-the-duck-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"January at the Duck Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/S1ntunn2WvI\/AAAAAAAACoU\/vanjeScyTW8\/s1600-h\/IMG_4833.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"384\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/S1ntunn2WvI\/AAAAAAAACoU\/vanjeScyTW8\/s640\/IMG_4833.JPG\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/S1nt6SVVH0I\/AAAAAAAACoc\/tPF6zugIhAw\/s1600-h\/IMG_4828.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"524\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/S1nt6SVVH0I\/AAAAAAAACoc\/tPF6zugIhAw\/s640\/IMG_4828.JPG\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Pip and I out and about yesterday afternoon.<br \/>Tabs Birthday party tonight. Twelve little girls. Karaoke, piniata, musical chairs and hot potato. Tabs insisted on an in-house party. She also insisted on a DQ cake with yellow and blue roses around the edge. She is going to decorate the rest of it herself using icing tubes and gels.<br \/>Beautiful sunshine today. Spring seems to be here rather early&#8211;but I am not complaining! Rented &#8220;Whiteout&#8221; last night partly because it is a Canadian film and partly because it is supposed to take place in Antarctica. It was entertainig enough. Made me realize that I have lived through -60 oC with the wind chill! I remember being so grumpy (as a sales associate at Filenes Fashions) if anyone dared come into the store because I thought the entire city of Saskatoon should have shut down and was irritated that I had to go to work in that weather. Oh, those prairie winters&#8211;what doesn&#8217;t kill you makes you stronger&#8211;they never leave the psyche.<br \/>School for me tomorrow. I had too big a break from it. My mind isn&#8217;t there. I am nervous to start again as I feel so removed from my Masters at this point.<br \/>As for travel&#8230;Tibet is a no go for me. But it looks like Peter and I will do Malaysia and South Asia&#8211;if we can find a babysitter! My dream is to visit the orang utan refuge and photograph the orag utans and then paint a portrait series of them.<br \/>I am still leaning toward doing a PhD after this MA. But of course, these are big, hard decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pip and I out and about yesterday afternoon.Tabs Birthday party tonight. Twelve little girls. Karaoke, piniata, musical chairs and hot potato. Tabs insisted on an in-house party. She also insisted on a DQ cake with yellow and blue roses around &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/january-at-the-duck-pond\/\" aria-label=\"January at the Duck Pond\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[696,1088,1089],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","tag-kids-party","tag-orag-utans","tag-whiteout"],"aioseo_notices":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":24,"label":"Motherhood"}],"post_tag":[{"value":696,"label":"kids party"},{"value":1088,"label":"orag utans"},{"value":1089,"label":"whiteout"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mixhart","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/author\/mixhart\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":24,"name":"Motherhood","slug":"motherhood","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":734,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":24,"category_count":734,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Motherhood","category_nicename":"motherhood","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":696,"name":"kids party","slug":"kids-party","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":696,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1088,"name":"orag utans","slug":"orag-utans","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1088,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1089,"name":"whiteout","slug":"whiteout","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1089,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}