{"id":26081,"date":"2023-07-27T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=26081"},"modified":"2023-08-13T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T21:55:57","slug":"duckie-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/duckie-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Duckie Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_210921628.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have a duckie race in the river each year at the Sanchez reunion. Each person chooses a duck and someone dumps them into the river upstream and we watch them race towards our bridge. We do three heats and pull out the winners for a fourth and final race. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The children and adults line up on the bridge and in the river to watch and cheer for their ducks. It is a coveted job among the tweens and teens to stand in the water beneath the bridge to catch the ducks in nets as they cross the finish line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Championship trophies are awarded, so these are highly sought-after titles. The jester duck won, which was my Uncle Doug&#8217;s duck, thanks to my nephew David, who chose it for him. Doug gave the championship cup to David after an emotional acceptance speech. \ud83d\ude02 Mark&#8217;s monkey duck won a heat and was in the final race, along with Richard\u2019s duck. My baby duck didn&#8217;t do very well at all. Maybe next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_211342874-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_211342874-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26083\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_211342874-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_211342874-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_211342874-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_211342874-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_211342874-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_214230044-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_214230044-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26085\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_214230044-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_214230044-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_214230044-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_214230044-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_214230044-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230724_212245327.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a duckie race in the river each year at the Sanchez reunion. Each person chooses a duck and someone dumps them into the river upstream and we watch them race towards our bridge. We do three heats and pull out the winners for a fourth and final race. The children and adults line &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/duckie-race\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duckie Race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-family-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26081"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26165,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26081\/revisions\/26165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}