{"id":317,"date":"2008-07-20T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T02:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-07-20T21:31:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T02:31:43","slug":"8-hours-18-minutes-16-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"8 hours, 18 minutes, 16 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how long my brother swam yesterday! It was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usms.org\/features.php?id=67\">Inaugural 2008 25K US Master Swimming National Championship<\/a>, 15.5 miles, five times around a 3.1 mile lake loop. &#8220;No Lanes, No Lines, No Walls.&#8221; We had the honor of taking turns paddling alongside him as support kayakers &#8230; two loops for Steve, two for me, one for Shelly (his daughter, my niece.) Our job was easy. His was not! I think he is nuts and I am totally in awe of his discipline, his committment, his endurance, his stamina&#8230; I guess I could just say that I am totally in awe of my brother!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/2008\/07\/end-of-swim.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/2008\/07\/end-of-swim.jpg\" alt=\"Steve finishes a 15.5 mile lake swim.\" title=\"end-of-swim\" width=\"492\" height=\"305\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before and after the swim we camped together on the White River outside Noblesville, Indiana. Steve (brother) brought his pop-up camper and daughters. I love my nieces! Shelly is soon-to-be 14; Jill just turned 12. They are very cool! After Steve (husband) and the girls went for a canoe paddle on the river this morning, we broke camp and headed to my Aunt Dude and Uncle Jack&#8217;s house for a visit with some of the Fort Wayne clan. Steve (brother) took the girls to a movie and stayed to camp another night. We&#8217;ll hook back up on the road tomorrow and head &#8220;home&#8221; to Michigan where we&#8217;ll move into his driveway for the next couple of weeks. I can&#8217;t wait! Mom and Dad&#8230; here we come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how long my brother swam yesterday! It was the Inaugural 2008 25K US Master Swimming National Championship, 15.5 miles, five times around a 3.1 mile lake loop. &#8220;No Lanes, No Lines, No Walls.&#8221; We had the honor of taking turns paddling alongside him as support kayakers &#8230; two loops for Steve, two for me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}