{"id":1398,"date":"2007-03-03T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/03\/03\/late-friday-night-back-flip\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T12:39:00","slug":"late-friday-night-back-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/03\/03\/late-friday-night-back-flip\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Friday Night &#8211; back flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_236683819\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<o:p><\/o:p>Today was a good, quiet day. We had heavy snow all day, so it felt very good to be indoors. I worked hard all day and time passed quickly. It still take much longer for me to get anything done. One thing I like about my work now is that folks are so much more willing to share their personal stories with me. <span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>At one point today I had a great IM conversation <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>with my friend Sybil down in <st1:city><st1:place>Austin<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. She shared with me a wonderful song that her friends had written for her when her fianc\u00e9e passed away 2.5 years ago. I&#8217;ll share it with folks as soon as I get the words.<span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>After talking to Sybil, I couldn&#8217;t really go beack and do work.-work.. I sifted gears and spent a few hours working on Sam&#8217;s SaStone website. I really enjoyed spending a few hours staring at pictures of Sam.. even if they were surrounded by HTML.   <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Before I knew it, it was evening. We&#8217;d made plans to go back to <st1:place><st1:placename>Green<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Mountain<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>Gymnastics again.. We all showed up around 7. it was an absolute hoot !. The kids.. all friends of gabes and Sam&#8217;s are all natural athletes.. They did the most amazing flips. Corks and gainers. It was like something you&#8217;d pay to see ! I loved watching how the kids worked out routines.. here&#8217;s a group flip that Gabe organized.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><object enablejsurl=\"false\" enablehref=\"false\" saveembedtags=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" allownetworking=\"internal\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/s147.photobucket.com\/player.swf?file=http:\/\/vid147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Movie.flv\" height=\"389\" width=\"430\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/s147.photobucket.com\/player.swf?file=http:\/\/vid147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Movie.flv\"><\/param><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"internal\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"never\"><\/param><param name=\"enableJSURL\" value=\"false\"><\/param><param name=\"enableHREF\" value=\"false\"><\/param><param name=\"saveEmbedTags\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> The instructor, Ely, is a great guy. He&#8217;s a social worker in real life.. we spent a long time talking about dying and healing and gymnastics.. An interesting mix.. My one goal for the <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>evening was to do a backflip. I&#8217;m proud to say that I did a few.. even though I still need to work on my form<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><object enablejsurl=\"false\" enablehref=\"false\" saveembedtags=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" allownetworking=\"internal\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/s147.photobucket.com\/player.swf?file=http:\/\/vid147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Movie_0001-3.flv\" height=\"389\" width=\"430\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/s147.photobucket.com\/player.swf?file=http:\/\/vid147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Movie_0001-3.flv\"><\/param><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"internal\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"never\"><\/param><param name=\"enableJSURL\" value=\"false\"><\/param><param name=\"enableHREF\" value=\"false\"><\/param><param name=\"saveEmbedTags\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">.. I also took this movie by doing a flip with the camera in my hand.. It makes me quesy just watching it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object enablejsurl=\"false\" enablehref=\"false\" saveembedtags=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" allownetworking=\"internal\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/s147.photobucket.com\/player.swf?file=http:\/\/vid147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Movie_0002.flv\" height=\"389\" width=\"430\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/s147.photobucket.com\/player.swf?file=http:\/\/vid147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Movie_0002.flv\"><\/param><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"internal\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"never\"><\/param><param name=\"enableJSURL\" value=\"false\"><\/param><param name=\"enableHREF\" value=\"false\"><\/param><param name=\"saveEmbedTags\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After gymnastics, <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>everyone came over for late dinner and ice cream. There was a pretty good size crow.. It was pretty tame though.. most of the <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>adults gravitated to the dinner table to work on coloring Mandala&#8217;s <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>It&#8217;s very relaxing and cheaper than wallpaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 444px; height: 332px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar0207020.jpg\" alt=\"Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Speaking of drawing.. here&#8217;s a picture of Sam&#8217;s friend Nate&#8217;s new Tattoo.. He had Sam&#8217;s Mayan glyphs inked on his arm\u2026 (with his parent blessing).. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 404px; height: 538px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar0207002.jpg\" alt=\"Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Now that&#8217;s a devoted friend, Sam !<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p>-jc<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a good, quiet day. We had heavy snow all day, so it felt very good to be indoors. I worked hard all day and time passed quickly. It still take much longer for me to get anything done. One thing I like about my work now is that folks are so much more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/03\/03\/late-friday-night-back-flip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Late Friday Night &#8211; back flip<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}