{"id":664,"date":"2012-06-23T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T17:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/?page_id=664"},"modified":"2012-06-30T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:47:58","slug":"mitten-kidz-joan-o%e2%80%99neill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/?page_id=664","title":{"rendered":"Mitten Kidz &#8211; Joan O\u2019Neill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; width: 280px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skimichigan.org\/images\/joan640.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skimichigan.org\/images\/joan320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/?p=667\">Starting them young\u2026 getting your child into snowsports \u2013 Mitten Kidz<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/a><BR>By Joan O\u2019Neill \u2013 Mitten Kidz\nWe  enrolled our three year old, Soren, in his first ski lesson the other  day. We\u2019ve actually had our son on the slopes since he was 19 months  old, however this was his first true lesson, taught by a teaching  professional and made official by a [...]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/?p=667\"> more...<\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/?p=663\">Get thee to a campground! \u2013 Mitten Kidz<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/a><BR>\nLake of the Clouds in Michigan\u2019s Porcupine Mountains. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)\n\nBy Joan O\u2019Neill \u2013 Mitten Kidz\nI can still smell it. The huge  ten-person canvas tent that my family had while growing up. It weighed a  ton, had that distinct weathered canvas aroma, and came accompanied by  an arsenal of no less than [...]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/?p=663\"> more...<\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/?p=665\">Our Summer 2012 Bucket List \u2013 Mitten Kidz<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/a><BR>\nBy Joan O\u2019Neill \u2013 Mitten Kidz\nEach summer, BK (before kids), my  husband and I would make a list of the top things we wanted to do, see  or enjoy over the summer. Annual standbys included watching the Perseid Meteor Shower from a we-don\u2019t-dare-disclose Lake Michigan beach; a drive-in movie at the Cherrybowl Drive-In [...]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/?p=665\"> more...<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joan O\u2019Neill<\/strong> is the author of the blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mittenkidz.com\">MittenKidz.com<\/a>, a site that is all about growing up in Michigan and the places and activities that are unique to the Great Lakes State. Mostly out-of-doors, some indoors, all of them Pure Michigan. O\u2019Neill is a 20-year veteran of the Michigan resort business and a MittenKidz at heart, herself. A big proponent of getting out and having fun in Michigan, no matter what the season, O\u2019Neill is now sharing her favorite pastimes with her two young sons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting them young\u2026 getting your child into snowsports \u2013 Mitten KidzBy Joan O\u2019Neill \u2013 Mitten Kidz\nWe  enrolled our three year old, Soren, in his first ski lesson the other  day. We\u2019ve actually had our son on the slopes since he was 19 months  old, however this was his first true lesson, taught [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}