{"id":898,"date":"2020-08-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/?p=898"},"modified":"2020-08-08T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:56:04","slug":"she-floats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/2020\/08\/03\/she-floats\/","title":{"rendered":"She Floats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her name is <em>Miss Gwen<\/em>, and we launched her at Bladensburg Waterfront Park on Saturday at about quarter to ten in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1398.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1398-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1398-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1398-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1398-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1398.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dawn took all the pictures, bless her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She rolled down into the water as easy as you please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1399.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1399-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1399-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1399-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1399-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1399.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>She touches water for the first time, August 1, 2020 9:44 a.m.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I fumbled around, trying to learn how to row her. I&#8217;m going to need a lot of practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1407.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1407-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1407-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1407-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1407-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1407.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>I have much to learn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she and I both survived our first day on the water together. May we have many more such days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1420.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1420-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1420-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1420-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1420-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1420.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dawn gave me this shirt a while back. It reads, &#8220;I&#8217;m the Captain. I make ship happen.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her name is Miss Gwen, and we launched her at Bladensburg Waterfront Park on Saturday at about quarter to ten in the morning. She rolled down into the water as easy as you please. I fumbled around, trying to learn how to row her. I&#8217;m going to need a lot of practice. But she and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/2020\/08\/03\/she-floats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;She Floats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohls.org\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}