{"id":74,"date":"2006-10-03T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dulcimers.com\/sharonsblog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2006-10-04T06:59:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T12:59:32","slug":"oodles-of-noodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Oodles of Noodles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today it&#8217;s a bit cloudy, but it probably won&#8217;t stop us from enjoying the pool after we stop to see Mom. (I&#8217;m pretty much over my cold.)<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t mentioned one of the must-haves at the pool: a foam snakey looking thing everyone uses for floating in the pool.  We call them noodles.  Noodles are mandatory.  Everyone has one.  We started with the popular variety which is about 2 1\/2 inches in diameter.  One day we stumbled across two that are a larger version in the Goodwill store.  It&#8217;s probably close to 4 inches across.  I love the larger one because it keeps me high enough in the water so my hair doesn&#8217;t get wet.    We float for hours at a time.  The pool is the social spot.  We meet folks, enjoy lively conversations, and relax.  No store locally sells the big ones, so with our big noodles, we&#8217;re the envy of everyone at the pool.   <\/p>\n<p>Below you can see both the smaller ones being used in an exercise class and John using one of ours.  (Mine is a pretty royal blue.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dulcimers.com\/sharonsblog\/oodlesofnoodles.jpg\" alt=\"a noodle exercise class\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dulcimers.com\/sharonsblog\/johninpool.jpg\" alt=\"relaxing\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it&#8217;s a bit cloudy, but it probably won&#8217;t stop us from enjoying the pool after we stop to see Mom. (I&#8217;m pretty much over my cold.) I haven&#8217;t mentioned one of the must-haves at the pool: a foam snakey looking thing everyone uses for floating in the pool. We call them noodles. Noodles are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-fall-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}