{"id":573885545,"date":"2013-11-01T22:56:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T03:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573885545"},"modified":"2013-11-03T23:47:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T05:47:29","slug":"broke-4000-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/broke-4000-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Broke 4,000 miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I call this one &#8220;Where I&#8217;ve been, where I am and where I&#8217;m going.&#8221; I broke 4,000 miles on my bike this afternoon &#8212; not all at once, of course. It took far too long, actually. Took a few pictures, including the odometer on the Cateye. Here&#8217;s to the next thousand miles: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov13\/4000.jpg\" alt=\"Cateye\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I got honked at today. I was doing about 26 miles per hour at the time. I&#8217;m pretty sure the full framed gentleman in his truck has never done that under his own power. But I won&#8217;t judge. Sometimes I pass trucks. Sometimes the guy inside hurls a slur. It all works out. The late afternoon and early evening was beautiful and life is grand.<\/p>\n<p>That was a 30 mile ride which is, I&#8217;m embarrassed to say, the longest ride I&#8217;ve had since August. Felt like it, too. Have to ride more. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Things to read &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a long &#8212; but vitally important &#8212; one. And also an attractive example of modern web design. The Guardian offers <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/interactive\/2013\/nov\/01\/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section\/1\">NSA files decoded: What the revelations mean for you<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Coolest story of the day: <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/news\/world\/san-francisco-will-become-gotham-city-one-day-make-5-year-old-boys-wish-batman\/\">San Francisco Will Become Gotham City For One Day To Make A 5-Year-Old Boy\u2019s Wish To Be Batman Come True<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And since I talked about foliage yesterday &#8230; this was one of the better parts of the scenery today:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov13\/nov01.jpg\" alt=\"foliage\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The clocks move back this weekend. Fall is here. I&#8217;d hope for more warm weather, but that is beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call this one &#8220;Where I&#8217;ve been, where I am and where I&#8217;m going.&#8221; I broke 4,000 miles on my bike this afternoon &#8212; not all at once, of course. It took far too long, actually. Took a few pictures, including the odometer on the Cateye. Here&#8217;s to the next thousand miles: I got honked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14,28,35,25,10,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573885545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-friday","category-iphone","category-journalism","category-links","category-photo","category-things-to-read"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573885545","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=573885545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573885545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573885547,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573885545\/revisions\/573885547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573885545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573885545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573885545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}