{"id":3635,"date":"2017-01-26T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:46:38","slug":"find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"Find Another Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the inspirational part of this post that could show up on a motivational poster:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sometimes, you just have to get out there.<\/p>\n

So when the water\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit too cold for your tastes,<\/p>\n

you just find another way.<\/p>\n

And here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the reality part that won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t show up on any posters (except maybe the ones at despair.com<\/a>):<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Inspired by your idea, you haul your boat out onto the beach but realize you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find your oars.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Not wanting to let inspiration die while you search for your oars, you grab the first thing you can think of to substitute for oars: buckets.<\/p>\n

This does not work well.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to get more than five feet from the shore, and in the rowing process, you all get soaked anyway. You bucket-paddle your freezing selves back to shore and ditch the boat.<\/p>\n

And the inspirational idea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coup de grace?\u00c2\u00a0 Your parents find the whole thing hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the inspirational part of this post that could show up on a motivational poster: Sometimes, you just have to get out there. So when the water\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit too cold for your tastes, you just find another way. And here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the reality part that won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t show up on any posters (except maybe the ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[896,105,2157,1123,2158],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-parenting","tag-island-boating","tag-island-life","tag-island-winters","tag-kids-boating","tag-winter-boating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}