{"id":32089,"date":"2025-09-25T13:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=32089"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:17:49","slug":"phil-blacks-standup-paddleboard-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/phil-blacks-standup-paddleboard-follies\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Black\u2019s Standup Paddleboard Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry clearfloat\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfloat\"><a href=\"\/web\/20120217132908\/http:\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\" type=\"button_count\" name=\"fb_share\"><\/a>Mental Edge Monday Topic #19: Phil Black\u2019s Standup Paddleboard Follies I used to love summer \u2013 until today . Today severely challenged my manhood. I ate more humble pie today than I will care to remember for a long time. In the end, my experience on the water today taught me some valuable lessons that I have long forgotten. The punch line is this: \u201cTrying new things sucks\u201d I was all fired up this morning to try this \u201cstandup paddleboard\u201d thing. If you haven\u2019t witnessed or heard about this new craze, it goes a little something like this. take a huge, floatable, extremely buoyant oversized surfboard and stand up on it no really, go ahead, stand up, it\u2019s very stable \u2013 no one falls off sure, wear your sunglasses and favorite shirt and don\u2019t worry about the iPhone in your pocket \u2013 don\u2019t worry, you won\u2019t even touch the water proceed to take gentle strokes like you\u2019re an Italian gondolier paddling down a calm Venice waterway it\u2019s like you\u2019re floating on the water, really fun, exhilarating, soulful, relaxing Lies, lies, lies. Truth be told, watch the video and you will see a small sampling of my complete ruining of an otherwise fun water activity.\u00a0 Before launching, I stood with my board and paddle in my hand<\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Phil Black's Standup Paddleboard Follies\" href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phil Black\u2019s Standup Paddleboard Follies<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Edge Monday Topic #19: Phil Black\u2019s Standup Paddleboard Follies I used to love summer \u2013 until today . Today severely challenged my manhood. I ate more humble pie today than I will care to remember for a long time. In the end, my experience on the water today taught me some valuable lessons that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-work-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}