{"id":10569,"date":"2022-03-19T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10569"},"modified":"2022-03-19T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T16:58:11","slug":"30-metres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10569","title":{"rendered":"30 metres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How hard can it possibly be? Today\u2019s challenge is to ski 30 metres on the flat part of the nursery slope. The problem? It\u2019s 30 metres of water. Every March we have an event called the Pool Race. A 30 metre pool is dug and filled with water, and skiers and snowboarders can try to cross the pool. Speed is the essence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1695\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1969-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1969-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1969-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1969-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1969-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1969-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1969-2048x1356.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1969-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The water is about a metre deep and it\u2019s absolutely freezing. If the weather\u2019s good it\u2019s a really popular event, and the Figeller bar on the nursery slope does a roaring trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This afternoon Aminaa was back making more brownies, and I made a Thai curry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How hard can it possibly be? Today\u2019s challenge is to ski 30 metres on the flat part of the nursery slope. The problem? It\u2019s 30 metres of water. Every March we have an event called the Pool Race. A 30 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}