{"id":236,"date":"2015-08-13T20:17:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/?p=236"},"modified":"2015-08-19T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:33:10","slug":"falling-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/21st-century-skills\/falling-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2906-300x3001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-240 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2906-300x3001.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2906\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>When I asked my 5 year old son what he wanted to do over the summer, he said that he wanted to learn to play hockey. I&#8217;m not a hockey player, never played, and (what with the state of the Leafs these days!) don&#8217;t really watch it at all.<\/p>\n<p>So this past week, my son Spencer, \u00a0has been taking to the ice for an hour and a half each day. I dress him in his full equipment, and grab a hot drink and watch him and cheer him on. He falls as he gets on the ice, and he gets up. He tries to take a shot on goal, and he falls &#8211; then he gets back up. When learning to skate backwards, he goes forward, falls, and then gets back up. You get the picture.<\/p>\n<p>But every day, when I ask &#8220;How excited are you for hockey?&#8221; he replies with something adorable like &#8220;To all my toys and back again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>May we all find such joy in learning, such gladness in challenge, and perseverance when we fall. This is really a learning experience for both of us!<a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2892.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-238 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2916-e1439496982123-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2916\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2916-e1439496982123-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2916-e1439496982123-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2916-e1439496982123-620x827.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2916-e1439496982123-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_2916-e1439496982123.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I asked my 5 year old son what he wanted to do over the summer, he said that he wanted to learn to play hockey. I&#8217;m not a hockey player, never played, and (what with the state of the Leafs these days!) don&#8217;t really watch it at all. So this past week, my son&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/21st-century-skills\/falling-down\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[51,52],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century-skills","tag-learning","tag-perseverance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}