{"id":454,"date":"2009-04-08T19:31:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T00:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2009-04-10T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T01:14:10","slug":"april-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"April in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-455\" title=\"fire\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fire.jpg\" alt=\"fire\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fire.jpg 600w, https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fire-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My friend Jen just wrote a blog about <a href=\"http:\/\/jennifersherowski.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/colorado-in-april\/\" target=\"_blank\">April in Colorado<\/a>, and how it can snow at any time. It&#8217;s times like these when I am glad to live in Portland. Sure, it might rain a little bit, but this past weekend&#8217;s weather can only be described as epic. It also happened to coincide with my birthday, and the completion of a new backyard mini. Since you&#8217;ll probably ask, the ramp is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evadedesigns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve&#8217;s<\/a> house and is the culmination of his dream since the age of 8. If you are nice I will take you there.<\/p>\n<p>So in short, we ate, we drank, we skated and I made a web video, of course.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N9i5lz28ItU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N9i5lz28ItU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And a few more pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-456\" title=\"brooke-pivot-fire\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/brooke-pivot-fire.jpg\" alt=\"brooke-pivot-fire\" width=\"549\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I felt like it would be a good idea to get a new default shot before the ramp warps and what not. I did about 1000 pivots and I really wish I knew more tricks. But anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaredsouney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jared <\/a>got the shot, so that&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-457\" title=\"levins\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/levins.jpg\" alt=\"levins\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/levins.jpg 450w, https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/levins-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jason Levins turned up on Saturday, which isn&#8217;t a huge surprise since the whole crew is from Vermont. But you know, he used to page me in study hall. We go way back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-458\" title=\"nate\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nate.jpg\" alt=\"nate\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nate.jpg 450w, https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nate-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nate always spoils us with his wonderful cooking. The man likes a good loin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-459\" title=\"dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dinner.jpg\" alt=\"dinner\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dinner.jpg 600w, https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dinner-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No phoned in burger and dog BBQ here. Perfect end to a perfect weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives My friend Jen just wrote a blog about April in Colorado, and how it can snow at any time. It&#8217;s times like these when I am glad to live in Portland. Sure, it might rain a little bit, but this past weekend&#8217;s weather can only be described as epic. It also happened to coincide with my birthday, and the completion of a new backyard mini. Since you&#8217;ll probably ask, the ramp is at Steve&#8217;s house and is the culmination of his dream since the age of 8. If you are nice I will take you there. So in short, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[343,344,345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}