{"id":22,"date":"2010-02-12T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2010\/02\/whistler-wonder.html"},"modified":"2010-02-12T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:47:00","slug":"whistler-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2010\/02\/whistler-wonder.html","title":{"rendered":"Whistler Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Pie is asleep, and Doodles is steadfastly holding out till 9 p.m., I can tell you about my last trip to Whistler. All those images of Vancouver and Whistler in the coverage of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies (not the ceremonies, mind you; we&#8217;re still in the &#8220;coverage&#8221; of the opening) really make me miss the West Coast. So beautiful. I miss the mountains and the rain (yes, really, the rain) and the lack of snow (although I understand that this winter has proven Seattle to be snowy). The coverage showed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacearchpark.org\/\">Peace Arch<\/a> and I spent a lot of time, sitting in my car, looking at that Peace Arch, cursing the freakin&#8217; traffic at the border. [Quick side note: the remake of &#8220;We Are the World&#8221; is on, and save Babs and Michael Jackson, why don&#8217;t I recognize half of the people singing?]<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was in Whistler. I was on a date. With this guy I had just started dating. We went on a mountain biking weekend with a bunch of his friends. Advice to you guys: Don&#8217;t go on a mountain biking date with a guy you only started dating. I wasn&#8217;t sure I liked him, I wasn&#8217;t sure I liked his friends, I was pretty sure I didn&#8217;t like mountain biking. <\/p>\n<p>I had never been mountain biking before, and now that I&#8217;m a sporty gal, I realize that what we did wasn&#8217;t really mountain biking. It was flying. Down a hill. On a rented two-wheel vehicle of death. The bumpy dirt path went straight down, and I rode my brakes the entire way. Not so fun. And really not so fun when my date when flying over his handlebars, lay on the ground in a bloody mess, with two chipped front teeth. We&#8217;d been dating for about three weeks. What was I supposed to do? Be the concerned girlfriend? I wasn&#8217;t sure I could call myself a girlfriend. Brush it off, like, &#8220;Hey, it&#8217;s all cool&#8221;? Did I coo? Get all worked up? Talk about stress! I decided the guy wasn&#8217;t worth the hassle. I didn&#8217;t need a bleeder. Besides, he was arrogant as all get out. At least Whistler was beautiful and the Bellinis I drank for the first (and last) time helped numb the pain of it all.<\/p>\n<p>You know what? Sometimes I still think he isn&#8217;t worth the hassle. But in for a penny, in for a pound, so I guess I&#8217;ll just keep him.<\/p>\n<p>(Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, Adam!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Pie is asleep, and Doodles is steadfastly holding out till 9 p.m., I can tell you about my last trip to Whistler. All those images of Vancouver and Whistler in the coverage of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies (not the ceremonies, mind you; we&#8217;re still in the &#8220;coverage&#8221; of the opening) really make me [&hellip;]<\/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":[14],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}