{"id":3925,"date":"2013-12-16T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2013-12-15T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T19:35:16","slug":"hill-sledding-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3925","title":{"rendered":"Hill Sledding, Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/hillsledding.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>When I was a kid, one of my favorite winter activities was sledding.  Yes, I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/onlyagame.wbur.org\/2013\/01\/05\/flexible-flyer-sled-history\">classic Flexible Flyer<\/a>. But today it&#8217;s getting harder and harder for kids to find good places to sleigh ride in the suburbs, due to overly-protective &#8220;nanny state&#8221; liberalism and overly aggressive tort lawyers and casualty insurance companies (which force municipalities to crack down on any activity that might remotely trigger a lawsuit).  Perhaps somewhere in northern New Hampshire . . . <\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s nice to see that suburban parents and kids can still find small bumps in the landscape where a piece of slippery plastic might still give a kid a quick thrill after a snowfall.  So, here&#8217;s a modern suburban wintertime scene with a little boy enjoying his 5 or 6 second run down a micro-slope.   (Even though it&#8217;s still late autumn, actually!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, one of my favorite winter activities was sledding. Yes, I had a classic Flexible Flyer. But today it&#8217;s getting harder and harder for kids to find good places to sleigh ride in the suburbs, due to overly-protective &#8220;nanny state&#8221; liberalism and overly aggressive tort lawyers and casualty insurance companies (which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3928,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}