{"id":9603,"date":"2014-09-26T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T14:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9603"},"modified":"2014-09-26T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T14:39:51","slug":"drumming-for-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/09\/26\/drumming-for-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Drumming for Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The JCC is closed today for Rosh Hashanah&#8211; and best wishes for a happy new year to those who celebrate it&#8211; so I&#8217;m spending the morning with The Pip before Kate comes home to take the afternoon shift while I teach my class. SteelyKid is in school today as usual, so don&#8217;t tell her, but the Little Dude and I went down to the river to enjoy a beautiful fall day, with trees just starting to turn colors, as you can see in the featured image above.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights for The Pip, though, were the chance to throw rocks in the water, and drum on the pilings along the sides of Lock 7:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9605\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2014\/09\/sm_drumming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2014\/09\/sm_drumming.jpg\" alt=\"The Pip is an enthusiastic drummer.\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sm_drumming.jpg 500w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sm_drumming-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pip is an enthusiastic drummer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is, as you can see, a full-body activity, and eventually takes its toll:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9606\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2014\/09\/sm_tired_drummer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2014\/09\/sm_tired_drummer.jpg\" alt=\"Drumming is hard work.\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9606\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sm_tired_drummer.jpg 500w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sm_tired_drummer-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drumming is hard work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;re now watching a restorative episode of Scooby-Doo, before going outside to&#8230; do something. Not sure what, but there won&#8217;t be many more days this nice, so we&#8217;re going outside for something.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for me. Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JCC is closed today for Rosh Hashanah&#8211; and best wishes for a happy new year to those who celebrate it&#8211; so I&#8217;m spending the morning with The Pip before Kate comes home to take the afternoon shift while I teach my class. SteelyKid is in school today as usual, so don&#8217;t tell her, but&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/09\/26\/drumming-for-fall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drumming for Fall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}