{"id":267,"date":"2010-07-22T22:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T05:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2012-01-29T22:13:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T06:13:07","slug":"putt-putt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/2010\/07\/22\/putt-putt\/","title":{"rendered":"Putt putt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather and I took the kids out for a night on the town.  We started with putt putt and finished with ice cream sundaes.<\/p>\n<p>It was the kids&#8217; first time doing putt putt.  Maddux played like it was hockey.  James would put the ball on the tee, hit it about four inches, pick it up, walk it to the hole, put it a mere four inches from the hole and then tap it in with the putter.  Thomas watched the action closely but did not play; maybe next time.<\/p>\n<p>Score was not kept.  There were no winners and no losers.  Just a great time had by all.  We did keep the scorecard though.  A souvenir for the kids&#8217; memory box perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>Maddux takes the first shot.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1430.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Heather helping James.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1431.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Maddux retrieves the ball from the hole.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1434.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>James ponders his next shot.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1436.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>This ended up being the most unconventional game of putt putt of all time, but no one cared and everyone had fun.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1439.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>I took a short video that does a better job of explaining the chaos than my words have.<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VyHS4pvXpkY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>James positions the ball exactly where he wants it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1463.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Thomas took everything in stride.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1473.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Maddux couldn&#8217;t wait until we got to the castle.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1482.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The castle almost looks formidable from this angle.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1487.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Definitely one of the nicer putt putt courses I have ever been to.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1493.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The miniature town.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_Putt_Putt_1494.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather and I took the kids out for a night on the town. We started with putt putt and finished with ice cream sundaes. It was the kids&#8217; first time doing putt putt. Maddux played like it was hockey. James would put the ball on the tee, hit it about four inches, pick it up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZN5g-4j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismphillips.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}