Lydia’s developed a powerful love for jumping rope, thanks in large part to the new Disney Channel movie, Jump In<\/a>, and she’s on a mission to master double dutch. A few days ago she scrounged up a couple of ratty, too-short jump-ropes, and enlisted her brother and a plastic lawn chair as rope-turners, but her dreams remained frustratingly out of reach. Today I took pity on her and bought a couple of twelve-foot jump-ropes while she was at school, and after dinner Helena and I took her out onto the driveway and gave her some lessons. She almost got the hang of it, and I expect that after a couple more days she’ll be double-dutching like an old pro. And speaking of old pros, though Helena and I didn’t get the courage up to try jumping ourselves, I was surprised by how quickly and completely the old techniques and rhymes and feelings of playground jump-rope divas resurfaced. Those were the days, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lydia’s developed a powerful love for jumping rope, thanks in large part to the new Disney Channel movie, Jump In, and she’s on a mission to master double dutch. A few days ago she scrounged up a couple of ratty, too-short jump-ropes, and enlisted her brother and a plastic lawn chair as rope-turners, but her… Read More Going Dutch<\/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-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}