{"id":353,"date":"2018-01-09T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=353"},"modified":"2018-02-28T23:07:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T04:07:57","slug":"fwd-skating-down-the-ice-covered-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"SKATING DOWN THE ICE COVERED ROAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-size: 1.125rem; font-style: italic;\">MARJORIE \u00a0AND \u00a0KEVIN SKATING DOWN THE FIFTH LINE<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;\">\n<p>There was a time \u00a0when the fifth line \u00a0was regularly ice covered \u00a0sometimes so thick and smooth that Marjorie and \u00a0Kevin skated from our farm right down \u00a0past Kerrs and on to Saunders, then Lietches and Fabers and onward. They\u00a0could have reached Highway 7 easily. About two miles \u00a0of \u00a0ice covered road gently sloping south.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-664\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/skating-down-the-fifth-line-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/skating-down-the-fifth-line-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/skating-down-the-fifth-line-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/skating-down-the-fifth-line-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/skating-down-the-fifth-line.jpg 1799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">Today, \u00a02018, that ice road \u00a0is \u00a0unlikely as \u00a0the plows \u00a0and \u00a0sand trucks are quick to make the road \u00a0safe for cars \u00a0and \u00a0trucks \u2026 and \u00a0in so doing cancel \u00a0skating ventures. \u00a0Safe roads\u00a0 cancel \u00a0out winter romance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;\">\n<div class=\"\">Driving the car to the \u00a0farm in these conditions was always a great adventure\u2026slithering \u00a0right and left\u2026often with Dad (my dad) \u00a0swearing at the top of his voice for he blamed each farmer<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">for the lack \u00a0of upkeep of the roads. \u00a0 His attitude hearkened back to pioneer days \u00a0when farmers were expected to maintain the \u00a0roads \u00a0that passed their \u00a0farms. \u00a0Dad could string curse words together as if beads on a \u00a0necklace\u2026a \u00a0host of adverbs and adjectives faced each<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">verb and \u00a0noun.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Want an example? \u00a0 (wait for another story\u2026this story is too nice for that)<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">alan \u00a0skeoch<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Jan. 2018<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARJORIE \u00a0AND \u00a0KEVIN SKATING DOWN THE FIFTH LINE There was a time \u00a0when the fifth line \u00a0was regularly ice covered \u00a0sometimes so thick and smooth that Marjorie and \u00a0Kevin skated from our farm right down \u00a0past Kerrs and on to Saunders, then Lietches and Fabers and onward. They\u00a0could have reached Highway 7 easily. About two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}