{"id":573884778,"date":"2013-04-21T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884778"},"modified":"2013-04-23T01:03:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T06:03:51","slug":"catching-up-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/04\/21\/catching-up-106\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly place with extra pictures, because these things are art and need to be shared. Or not art, but would otherwise be deleted with no fanfare as they&#8217;ve not found a home elsewhere on the site. On with it then. <\/p>\n<p>How they dress up tables in Louisville, a little Rip Van Winkle and a fake arrangement really gussies up a place:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr46.jpg\" alt=\"flowers\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A piece of Civil War era <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grapeshot\">grapeshot<\/a> dug up from north Georgia. This one belongs to my mother. It was given to her by the owner of the property where it was found, the site of the last defensive battle before Sherman made it into Atlanta. There was a terrible storm during the two-day clash where almost 2,000 were hurt or killed in May of 1864. Another violent storm 113 years later brought my grandfather&#8217;s plane down in the same place, the worst aviation disaster in Georgia&#8217;s history. A lot has happened in that one spot.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr47.jpg\" alt=\"grapeshot\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A view from the Saturn rocket at the Ala.-Tenn. line, this time as we moved south. This view is exiting to the rest area. Just to the left as I snapped this firefighters were trying to free someone from a trapped vehicle. The medical helicopter had come to a complete rest on the interstate. Someone had died in that accident.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr48.jpg\" alt=\"rocket\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What a great story from cycling legend <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usbhof.org\/inductee-by-year\/53-john-sinibaldi\">John Sinibaldi<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr49.jpg\" alt=\"Sinibaldi\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Highway construction, the neat part being how that future ramp just disappears &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr50.jpg\" alt=\"construction\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The same roadwork from the other side:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr51.jpg\" alt=\"construction\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never realized this job took two trucks: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr13\/apr52.jpg\" alt=\"signage\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly place with extra pictures, because these things are art and need to be shared. Or not art, but would otherwise be deleted with no fanfare as they&#8217;ve not found a home elsewhere on the site. On with it then. How they dress up tables in Louisville, a little Rip Van Winkle and a [&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-573884778","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\/573884778","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=573884778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884781,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884778\/revisions\/573884781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}