{"id":328,"date":"2007-05-04T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/sweet-skate-update\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T13:38:02","slug":"sweet-skate-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/sweet-skate-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Skate Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>I finally went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateranchofraleigh.com\/newThursdayNightSkate.html\">First Thursday<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateranchofraleigh.com\/\">Skate Ranch<\/a> last night. Frankly, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it. I love skating, and I love the people, but there were too many people and too much hostility. About a third of the people had <em>no idea <\/em>what they were doing and were a danger to themselves, a third of the people were &#8220;Wild Boyz&#8221; and were a danger to everyone else, and the rest of us were decent skaters attempting to avoid all the targets. There were a number of security guards and I saw them more than once interrupting a &#8220;situation&#8221; that was developing. There was also some tension between some of the groups of skaters on the rink. To cap it all off, I had a run-in with this very rude guy who was awful to me. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smoovdivas.com\/\">Smooth Divas<\/a> were there and they were all dressed in hot pink T-shirts, just like me! They treated me like a sister and I love them for that. I even skated along behind them, on their coattails you could say, and felt like one of the group. Jeff&#8217;s girl Latoya was there and I was so glad to meet her &#8211; she&#8217;s a really nice girl and easy to talk to. Bobby was there, of course, and he was tearing it up as usual, falling all over the place cuz he&#8217;s not afraid to try. King was there and was so nice to me. I love to watch him skate. I also got to see Willie, which was nice because he wasn&#8217;t there last Sunday. All in all, I had a good time and I was glad I went because I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll be able to go on Sunday, but I won&#8217;t go back for First Thursday again, I don&#8217;t think. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>But here&#8217;s the best part. I bought new laces for my boots!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Here&#8217;s the &#8220;before&#8221; picture:<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_e3TqDsuX4e8\/RjuWK266ryI\/AAAAAAAAA7A\/8bZzz8w1lgA\/s320\/HPIM1237.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s the &#8220;after&#8221; picture:<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_e3TqDsuX4e8\/RjuV6266rxI\/AAAAAAAAA64\/lePKk4-pe3c\/s400\/HPIM1238.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sweet, huh? <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally went to First Thursday at the Skate Ranch last night. Frankly, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it. I love skating, and I love the people, but there were too many people and too much hostility. About a third of the people had no idea what they were doing and were a danger to themselves, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roller-skating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}