{"id":573884395,"date":"2013-01-20T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884395"},"modified":"2013-01-21T19:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T01:39:45","slug":"catching-up-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/01\/20\/catching-up-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday post full of pictures from the previous week. Put them here, write a few words, call it a daily update. On with it then!<\/p>\n<p>Worked my way back up to the good stuff, chocolate milk, my favorite recovery drink:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan26.jpg\" alt=\"milk\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You know how some gas stations tie things to their bathroom keys? And banks chain pens to their tabletops? Mr. Price does that with spoons on his pens. So this is spoon art, at Barbecue House.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan27.jpg\" alt=\"WEspoon\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It just looks ready to sprint. Shame its owner isn&#8217;t a sprinter. I took this picture on Friday, the day I realized my bike is faster than I am slow, whatever that means. I&#8217;ve been riding the thing for about 2,600 miles and the front derailleur was recently fixed for the first time. I found all new gears, which boosts my average speed by about four miles an hour just in leaning over the hoods. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan28.jpg\" alt=\"Felt\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Another view of the abandoned shack\/home I found on Friday: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan29.jpg\" alt=\"Shack\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sunset over Plainsman Park. In another month or so there will be baseball players there. We will all be happy about this development. In the meantime, we still have the best sunsets in the world. I&#8217;d show you the entire thing, but your browser is only certified for a sliver of a sunset this beautiful: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan30.jpg\" alt=\"PlainsmanPark\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We saw this band playing through the window as we left &#8230; some place downtown. I hadn&#8217;t realized that full grunge had made a comeback. Or, perhaps, these guys hadn&#8217;t heard the look had disappeared:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan31.jpg\" alt=\"Grunge\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I rode 32 miles today, and had my first Hammer Gel. You tear off the hammer part and squeeze this clear gel stuff into your mouth. That&#8217;s one serving, about 80 calories, and tastes fairly nasty. I prefer Stingers and Shot Blox. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan32.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday post full of pictures from the previous week. Put them here, write a few words, call it a daily update. On with it then! Worked my way back up to the good stuff, chocolate milk, my favorite recovery drink: You know how some gas stations tie things to their bathroom keys? And banks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884395","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=573884395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884397,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884395\/revisions\/573884397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}