{"id":58659,"date":"2025-12-29T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=58659"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:10:25","slug":"qotd-learning-how-to-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/12\/29\/qotd-learning-how-to-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Learning how to swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Michael Bennett has a neck injury. Mewelde Moore has a bad ankle. Onterrio &#8220;Cheech&#8221; Smith is in his basement trying to build a better Whizzinator so he can play next year. Moe Williams is more of a short-yardage back.<\/p>\n<p>So Friday, the Vikings will throw young [rookie running back Ciatrick] Fason overboard to see if he can swim.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a bad practice. Years ago, that&#8217;s how a lot of youngsters really did learn to swim. Before the era of 24\/7 nurturing, a father or older brother would take a boy out to the middle of a lake or river and push him into the water.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quick, and it saves hundreds of dollars on swimming lessons. That&#8217;s how I learned. The only problem, as I recall, was getting out of the plastic bag. But after that, it was a cinch.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Powers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/sports\/football\/12518815.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Opportunity knocks for quick-healing Fason&#8221;, <em>St. Paul Pioneer Press<\/em><\/a>, 2005-08-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bennett has a neck injury. Mewelde Moore has a bad ankle. Onterrio &#8220;Cheech&#8221; Smith is in his basement trying to build a better Whizzinator so he can play next year. Moe Williams is more of a short-yardage back. So Friday, the Vikings will throw young [rookie running back Ciatrick] Fason overboard to see if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,57],"tags":[374,126,179],"class_list":["post-58659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-humour","tag-children","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fg7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99985,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58659\/revisions\/99985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}