{"id":5975,"date":"2010-02-26T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2010-02-25T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:09:05","slug":"embracing-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/embracing-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/skiing.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5977\" title=\"skiing\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/skiing.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/skiing.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/skiing.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Inspired by the great performances of the Olympic athletes? Interested in trying one of those winter sports? The library has lots of books to inspire and instruct!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|633456\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Hockey for Everybody<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Cam Neely<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|374507\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Cross-Country Skiing : a Complete Guide<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Brian Cazeneuve<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|326414\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Learn Downhill Skiing in a Weekend<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Konrad Bartelski<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|818148\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Figure Skating for Dummies<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Kristi Yamaguchi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|729409\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Winter Adventure : Complete Guide to Winter Sports<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Peter Stark<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|541816\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Snowboarding Skills<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Cindy Kleh<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget about the great local resources available in our area from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atech.us\/qcsc\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Quad Cities Sports Center<\/strong><\/a> to the pond at VanderVeer Park.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re on your own for aerial ski jumping and luge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the great performances of the Olympic athletes? Interested in trying one of those winter sports? The library has lots of books to inspire and instruct! Hockey for Everybody by Cam Neely Cross-Country Skiing : a Complete Guide by Brian Cazeneuve Learn Downhill Skiing in a Weekend by Konrad<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/embracing-winter\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1077,1013,1001,201,1014,1078,179,95],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-cross-country","tag-figure-skating","tag-hockey","tag-olympics","tag-skiing","tag-snowboarding","tag-sports","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1yn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}