{"id":573881610,"date":"2011-05-24T20:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881610"},"modified":"2011-05-26T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T16:48:49","slug":"popular-media-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/05\/24\/popular-media-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular media publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just discovered I had a piece run in the <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/departments\/my-kind-of-town\/your-kind-of-town\/Auburn-AL.html\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>. Sure, it was a submit-your-own kind of thing, but that hardly matters, does it? But I&#8217;ll take it and stick it next to &#8220;Published by <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/travel\/columns\/story?columnist=caple_jim&#038;id=2545695\">ESPN<\/a> and &#8220;appeared in almost every major broadcast market&#8221; as small professional successes. <\/p>\n<p>Stumbled into each one of them. The major market work happened because I was at the scene of something interesting &#8212; the first victims of the DC snipers (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beltway_sniper_attacks#Execution_of_John_Allen_Muhammad\">John Allen Muhammad<\/a> was executed 18 months ago), bad storms, my good timing to be in D.C. when the Iraq War started, sports scandals (<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/index.ssf\/2010\/11\/former_auburn_basketball_star.html\">Chris Porter is in trouble again<\/a>) and so on. Just bumped into Jim Caple at the ballpark, which turned into a nice little photo gallery for ESPN, piggybacked on a nice package I did on Rickwood for al.com. I wrote the Smithsonian thing when I should have been studying. <\/p>\n<p>See, kids? Procrastination can be good. So is timing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>In other news<\/strong>: I&#8217;m still sore from where standing water beat me up this weekend. Sometimes I feel a little bit better, and then other times I am less than ideal. This will take some time, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining, mind you. I have been perfecting that story, though: <em>Did I tell you about the time my wife beat me up? She&#8217;s strong.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Or: <em>Did I tell you about the time I leapt from a plane, thwarted three ninjas mid-air, lost my chute and landed in a convenient lake, cartwheeling to a halt with a bruised up body? Those ninjas weren&#8217;t nearly as strong as my lovely bride.<\/em> (Sometimes we must suffer for our art.) <\/p>\n<p>If you see me moving a bit slowly the next few days, you&#8217;ll know why.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just discovered I had a piece run in the Smithsonian Magazine. Sure, it was a submit-your-own kind of thing, but that hardly matters, does it? But I&#8217;ll take it and stick it next to &#8220;Published by ESPN and &#8220;appeared in almost every major broadcast market&#8221; as small professional successes. Stumbled into each one of them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,25,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573881610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-links","category-memories","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573881610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573881613,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881610\/revisions\/573881613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573881610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573881610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573881610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}