{"id":573884693,"date":"2013-04-07T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884693"},"modified":"2013-04-16T15:38:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:38:30","slug":"catching-up-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/catching-up-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That one day a week where pictures that weren&#8217;t previously good enough now steal the show. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Troost, a Samford alum, came back to campus to talk to my students about his company, <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lanternvision.org\/\">Lantern Vision<\/a>. He does great work. You should check it out. He did a great job in the class today. He always does a great job. One of those types, and a very nice guy.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr07.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Just some light reading I&#8217;m doing:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Wysteria in Opelika:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr09.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>About a year-and-a-half ago or so I was right about where that car is down the road and had the best moment on my bike. I wasn&#8217;t moving especially fast, or perhaps not even especially well, but it felt terribly free. It was, I hope a fraction of <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velominati.com\/nostalgia\/la-volupte-i-was-flying-today\/\">la volupte<\/a>. This picture is from Monday, when I rode out that way again:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My first dogwood blooms of the season. Spring. Finally:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have a lot of windy roads that go up, so you&#8217;ll let me pretend this gentle little thing is a great climb, won&#8217;t you? The last three shots are all from my adventure that turned into <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/bigstories\/milesahead\/\">my first photo essay under the Big Stories section<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our breakfast on Friday. It was delicious. I want some more now. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That one day a week where pictures that weren&#8217;t previously good enough now steal the show. Enjoy. Nathan Troost, a Samford alum, came back to campus to talk to my students about his company, Lantern Vision. He does great work. You should check it out. He did a great job in the class today. He [&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-573884693","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\/573884693","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=573884693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884695,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884693\/revisions\/573884695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}