{"id":1164,"date":"2009-02-25T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2009-02-26T09:12:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T08:12:57","slug":"champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"<b>Champion!<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Tage and his classmates participated <em>Lilla Vasaloppet<\/em>&#8211;or &#8220;Little Vasa Ski Race&#8221;&#8211;an 800-meter cross-country ski event staged in honor of the annual Swedish ski marathon, <a href=\"http:\/\/au.encarta.msn.com\/media_1481590814\/vasaloppet_sweden.html\">Vasaloppet<\/a>.\u00a0 Our boy looked pretty comfortable on his skis, especially given that it was only his third outing on them (and the first was just five minutes in our front yard).<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Waiting his turn\" src=\"http:\/\/kids.tjerngren.net\/tage\/images\/tageonskis24february2009.jpg\" \/><\/center>Like most of the rest of the parents, Olof and I went up to the sports field to watch the skiers in action.\u00a0 There was no real &#8220;spectator area,&#8221; so we all just milled around, trying not to sink too deeply into the loosely packed snow and peering over each others&#8217; shoulders in an effort to make out our own little darlings from a couple of hundred meters&#8217; distance.\u00a0 Brynja had little trouble seeing over the crowd, but I don&#8217;t think she knew what to make of all the fuss. <center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"on Dad's shoulders\" src=\"http:\/\/kids.tjerngren.net\/brynja\/images\/brynjaoutside24february2009.jpg\" \/><\/center>After making two laps around the course, each kid was given a glass of <em>saft<\/em> (the Swedish answer to Kool-Aid) and a gold medal.\u00a0 Tage was so taken with his bling that he wore it for the rest of the day, and again to school this morning. <center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Medal ceremony\" src=\"http:\/\/kids.tjerngren.net\/tage\/images\/tagegettingmedal24february2009.jpg\" \/><\/center>We got home just after lunchtime, and a treat was absolutely in order.\u00a0 It being Fat Tuesday, only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.se\/templates\/cs\/Article____14133.aspx\"><em>semlor<\/em><\/a> would do, so I whipped up a batch of my famous&#8211;some might say &#8220;infamous&#8221;&#8211;chocolate-coffee delights.\u00a0 I made a dozen, and the kids all turned their noses up at them, so Olof had to eat the lot ourselves.\u00a0 Too bad. <center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Chocolate semla\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/chocolatesemla24february2009.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Tage and his classmates participated Lilla Vasaloppet&#8211;or &#8220;Little Vasa Ski Race&#8221;&#8211;an 800-meter cross-country ski event staged in honor of the annual Swedish ski marathon, Vasaloppet.\u00a0 Our boy looked pretty comfortable on his skis, especially given that it was only his third outing on them (and the first was just five minutes in our front&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1164\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Champion!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}