{"id":573886103,"date":"2014-03-09T23:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T04:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886103"},"modified":"2014-03-12T03:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T08:03:04","slug":"a-lovely-day-to-be-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/03\/09\/a-lovely-day-to-be-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"A lovely day to be outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes life is so hard to figure out when you&#8217;re a big kid:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar36.jpg\" alt=\"baseball\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There was a red-tailed hawk floating over the baseball stadium for a few seconds this afternoon. I&#8217;d never noticed how the underside of their wingspan is camouflaged against the right kind of sky. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar37.jpg\" alt=\"baseball\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Another one of those shots is going to be one of the new rotating banners on the blog. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, the game itself? Auburn took a 5-2 lead into the top of the ninth, but Mercer rallied to tie the score in the top of the ninth. So, at 5-5, Jordan Ebert led off for Auburn in the bottom of the ninth. He singled to left and then stole second. A one-out sacrifice bunt moved him to third. Two more runners got on to load the bases and that brought Ryan Tella to the plate:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar38.jpg\" alt=\"baseball\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On the eighth pitch of the at bat Tella pushed a ball just beyond the shortstop. The ball went into left and Ebert slid home uncontested to celebrate:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar14\/mar39.jpg\" alt=\"baseball\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tigers win, <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auburntigers.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/recaps\/030914aaa.html\">6-5<\/a>. The highlights:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"720\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WLNFfbGw2_s?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WLNFfbGw2_s?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>After the game I completed a training brick. They&#8217;re called that because of how your legs feel, right? I did a quick 17 mile ride and a slower three mile run. Nothing like 90 minutes of taxing your cardio to give you perspective, or lack of perspective. I find I can&#8217;t think of much of anything but the next breath. <\/p>\n<p>I did ponder on how my bike got so slow. You take a few days off and the thing forgets how to move at a respectably medium speed. And I also managed to notice and marvel and wonder why my hip hurt for the first half-mile. But I could not figure out, for the next mile, why the stretching I was doing didn&#8217;t help my calves. Turns out I was flexing the wrong way, so &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I do not know what is happening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes life is so hard to figure out when you&#8217;re a big kid: There was a red-tailed hawk floating over the baseball stadium for a few seconds this afternoon. I&#8217;d never noticed how the underside of their wingspan is camouflaged against the right kind of sky. Another one of those shots is going to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,42,40,52,10,57,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573886103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama","category-baseball","category-cycling","category-i-do-not-know-what-is-happening","category-photo","category-running","category-video","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886103","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=573886103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573886105,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886103\/revisions\/573886105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573886103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573886103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573886103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}