{"id":3908,"date":"2010-05-17T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T01:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2010-05-17T20:41:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T01:41:36","slug":"jump-rope-for-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3908","title":{"rendered":"Jump Rope for Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had great plans of getting fantastic photojournal-ish type photos of the American Heat Association Jump Rope for Heart event and Blood Drive at Thomas Hart.\u00a0 Not only for my blog, but perhaps the Hartsville Messenger.\u00a0 I even <strong><em>thought <\/em><\/strong>about submitting something to the State, a lofty aspiration, but why not?\u00a0 This was a huge event in honor of my Mary Clare, and McCanless had such a great time keeping up with all of the very generous donations for her cause. \u00a0 Surely everyone would want to know about it.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 Then I realized that I would have to do two things:\u00a0 1) find time to write articles and 2) photo willing subjects.\u00a0 Neither of which would happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3905\" title=\"Jump a thon 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-1-152x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jump a thon 1\" width=\"152\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-1-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-1.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">McCanless refused to even face my camera to show off her cute double-dutch worthy attire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3906\" title=\"Jump a thon 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jump a thon 2\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-2.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And Mary Clare, although perfectly content on every single middle school girl&#8217;s hip, wouldn&#8217;t dare smile.\u00a0 Not even once for my camera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3907\" title=\"Jump a thon 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-3-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jump a thon 3\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-3-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jump-a-thon-3.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She even broke down in the middle of the gym floor because she wanted a &#8220;pink snow cone, not a green one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It probably didn&#8217;t help matters when I gave blood, just as I have so, so many times before, immediately before the Jump Rope event.\u00a0 The event that was held way out on the soccer field in the 95 degree , hot and humid SC spring weather.\u00a0 I gave blood, boastfully sat for a mere minute, grabbed Mary Clare and headed out to the field with my Nikon. I sat down on the bleachers and passed Mary Clare on to a few students and blacked out.\u00a0\u00a0 So instead of taking photos, I stared out into space.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 Needless to say I didn&#8217;t get my award winning photojournalistic shots I originally hoped for, but we had a wonderful event to spread awareness for the American Heart Assocation and even beat our last year&#8217;s record for pints of blood donated!\u00a0\u00a0 Way to go, THA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had great plans of getting fantastic photojournal-ish type photos of the American Heat Association Jump Rope for Heart event and Blood Drive at Thomas Hart.\u00a0 Not only for my blog, but perhaps the Hartsville Messenger.\u00a0 I even thought about submitting something to the State, a lofty aspiration, but why not?\u00a0 This was a huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}