{"id":32,"date":"2014-06-16T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/?p=32"},"modified":"2014-09-08T03:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T03:59:56","slug":"thanks-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/archives\/32","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"synchro<\/a>

NEXXICE dads and men who were brave enough to give synchro a try at our annual gala last November. Photo: Sean McKinnon<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday was Father\u2019s day<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0we’d like to say thanks to all of the rad\u00a0dads, guardians and grandpas out there who have touched our lives as skaters and individuals.<\/p>\n

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We spend $14.6 billion to show our love and appreciation to our fabulous mamas on Mother\u2019s Day. In comparison, we spend $9.4 billion to honour dad on Father’s Day – H&R Block<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a 5 billion<\/em> dollar difference. Money aside, are we giving dads the credit they deserve?<\/p>\n

To all of the fathers out there who woke up early to drive their sleepy skater over to the rink or the late nights spent watching them\u00a0rehearse their\u00a0programs over and over again. To the bitter winters and cold toes. To the summers that\u00a0you’d rather be outside but you stayed at the rink to watch. To\u00a0the grandpa who always asks, “how is skating?” To\u00a0the dad who stood proudly in the stands (or glued to the livestream), waving a flag and shouting — for you, your daughter, son or the skater in your life.<\/p>\n

We want to hear your stories. What has your dad done for you as a skater or parent? Email us<\/a> or leave a comment. We’ll share our favourite story next week!<\/p>\n

Thank you for being our everything and more — we love you, dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Father\u2019s day\u00a0and\u00a0we’d like to say thanks to all of the rad\u00a0dads, guardians and grandpas out there who have touched our lives as skaters and individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexxice.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}