{"id":386,"date":"2013-12-30T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2013-12-30T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T18:23:20","slug":"happy-new-year-happy-new-ases-pilot-happy-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/happy-new-year-happy-new-ases-pilot-happy-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year, Happy New ASES Pilot, Happy Playoffs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_388\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Winter-2013-2014-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-388\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-388\" alt=\"Seattle Seahawks - home of the 12th Man! (or Dog)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Winter-2013-2014-002-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Winter-2013-2014-002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Winter-2013-2014-002-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seattle Seahawks &#8211; home of the 12th Man! (or Dog)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a busy winter so far here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\">Seattle Seaplanes.<\/a> Even though the weather doesn&#8217;t always cooperate, we have been able to fly most days, and it&#8217;s been beautiful!<\/p>\n<p>In mid-December, my friend Jim got his ASES rating with us. He flew with our instructor James, and they had a great time. Jim told us something funny &#8211; he said he was going to save all his receipts from his training, put them under glass on a coffee table, and then tell his friends about his &#8220;several-thousand-dollar-coffee-table.&#8221; Ha! (Hey, it does cost something to get your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/training.php\">ASES rating<\/a>, but it&#8217;s also plenty rewarding, so don&#8217;t let cost slow you down!)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_389\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Jim-and-Toby-smaller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-389\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-389 \" alt=\"My friend Jim - is that a cookie in his hand?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Jim-and-Toby-smaller-275x300.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Jim-and-Toby-smaller-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Jim-and-Toby-smaller.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My friend Jim &#8211; is that a cookie in his hand?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re very excited here at Seattle Seaplanes about our hometown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/\">Seattle Seahawks!<\/a> They had a great regular season, going 13-3, and wrapping up a first-round bye and home field advantage for the playoffs! The road to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nynjsuperbowl.com\/\">Super Bowl <\/a>officially goes through Seattle, yay! (but my friend Kit is worried that she&#8217;ll have a major conflict on Feb 2, if her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverbroncos.com\/\">beloved Denver Broncos<\/a> and her hometown Hawks meet in the big game! Time will tell&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>So, Happy New Year! Why not make a resolution to come fly with us in 2014? And, Go Hawks! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/12th-Man\/\">#12thman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Cheers,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Toby James<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! We&#8217;ve had a busy winter so far here at Seattle Seaplanes. Even though the weather doesn&#8217;t always cooperate, we have been able to fly most days, and it&#8217;s been beautiful! In mid-December, my friend Jim got his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/happy-new-year-happy-new-ases-pilot-happy-playoffs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,51,3,9],"tags":[22,52],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flight-training","category-holidays","category-sports","category-toby","category-weather","tag-doberman-toby-seaplane-lakeunion","tag-seahawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}