{"id":1032,"date":"2020-01-31T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2020-02-01T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T01:27:49","slug":"best-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/best-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just One Thing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If there was one thing about January I wish would last all year long, it&#8217;s the cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When everything has died, shrunken back to the nibs, that&#8217;s my favorite time of year. It holds all the promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ice is water&#8217;s funnest form. Crystallized ice and snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What could be better than Maestro Emoto&#8217;s imaginarium of analog memory crystals reminiscing on the history of what they&#8217;ve experienced? Pure life, encapsulated, reflected and dispersed into the air as tiny fractals of that first freezing drop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t even prompt me on natural born snowflakes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about the perplexingly, perpetually offended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s those hexa-pointed fairies that fly about &#8211; then deposit into drifts &#8211; which enchant my fancy. I acclimate as they accumulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This whiter winter land is my etheric escape, my hue bleak vision of blanco blanketed perfection, colorless for as far as the eye can fathom. White out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s right out. Let&#8217;s go play! Not tomorrow, today! Strap in and get ready to slide, it&#8217;s time to board, it&#8217;s time to ride!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stand astride and smile at it&#8217;s logo of legend: Never Summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*Five minute Free Writing exercise with OKC Creative Writers &amp; Muses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Corona Run on Rossignol Sultan 161 Snowboard at Eldora Mountain, 1\/10\/20\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wg15SwLQtBk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Yes, this clip is of a Rossi, not a Never Summer deck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just One Thing If there was one thing about January I wish would last all year long, it&#8217;s the cold. When everything has died, shrunken back to the nibs, that&#8217;s my favorite time of year. It holds all the promise. Ice is water&#8217;s funnest form. Crystallized ice and snow. What could be better than Maestro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,82,83,15,21],"tags":[89,88,87,86],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-travel-vacations","category-cannabis","category-publishing","category-travel","category-wordpress","tag-colorado","tag-eldora","tag-rossignol","tag-snowboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeledwardbrowning.com\/meb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}