{"id":573884087,"date":"2012-10-28T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884087"},"modified":"2012-10-28T18:25:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T23:25:32","slug":"catching-up-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/catching-up-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Sunday, more fine extra photographs. Let&#8217;s get to it, then.<\/p>\n<p>It was military appreciation night at the football game last night, which was moving and touching in many ways. <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gamedayforheroes.org\/\">Gameday for Heroes<\/a>, an organization I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to work with, had some 900 tickets donated. There were families of soldiers and Marines recognized at the game. Servicemen and women were acknowledged left, right and center. There was the flyover and the para-commandos. It was all great.<\/p>\n<p>But Spirit&#8217;s flight was the best part of the night, otherwise:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct87.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct88.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct89.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct90.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct91.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct92.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct93.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct94.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Trick or treat? I guess? I hope?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct95.jpg\" alt=\"fans\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Aubie, the most interesting mascot in the world, flies F-22s. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct96.jpg\" alt=\"Aubie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some Samford shots, first, the big spooky oak that is spookily lit, but somehow seems even spookier in October:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct97.jpg\" alt=\"tree\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The famous and historic Samford quad:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct98.jpg\" alt=\"SamfordQuad\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A snapshot of this week&#8217;s Crimson budget meeting:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct99.jpg\" alt=\"Crimson\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Racing the sun home:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct12\/oct100.jpg\" alt=\"sunset\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Sunday, more fine extra photographs. Let&#8217;s get to it, then. It was military appreciation night at the football game last night, which was moving and touching in many ways. Gameday for Heroes, an organization I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to work with, had some 900 tickets donated. There were families of soldiers and Marines recognized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-photo","category-samford","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884087","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=573884087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884088,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884087\/revisions\/573884088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}