{"id":573886450,"date":"2014-06-03T22:51:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T03:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886450"},"modified":"2014-06-29T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T19:50:31","slug":"not-sure-of-my-time-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/06\/03\/not-sure-of-my-time-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Not sure of my time zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What day is it? What planet am I on?<\/p>\n<p>Transnational travel in a day is a surrealistic thing. On the other hand, we traversed almost 7,000 miles in a day.<\/p>\n<p>I ran one mile today, having not put on those shoes in a week, and my body feeling pretty terrible both because of that and the travel and the sleepiness and it all just hurt. So I sprinted, which still felt like a slog on my wife&#8217;s high school track. <\/p>\n<p>Saw this truck while we were ordering sandwiches. I feel like they got the tint of the paint job just about perfect:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june14\/june01.jpg\" alt=\"truck\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>These were our collective fortunes at dinner tonight. One of them makes no sense and, thus, all of the sense in the world:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june14\/june02.jpg\" alt=\"fortunes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Things to read<\/strong>: because reading always makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>What passes as sports journalism at home today: <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/index.ssf\/2014\/06\/alabama_football_heroes_on_the.html#incart_river_default\">Alabama All-Americans on the same bench as AJ McCarron meets Forrest Gump<\/a>. I&#8217;ll leave it to you to decide if I mean the subject matter or just writing things from social media accounts you follow. <\/p>\n<p>Something more important, <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2014\/06\/03\/exclusive-sharyl-attkisson-journalisms-dangerous-trend-censoring-stories\/\">Exclusive: Sharyl Attkisson on Journalism\u2019s Very Dangerous Trend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sharyl Attkisson, an award-winning investigative reporter who resigned from CBS News earlier this year, says the news media are heading down a dangerous path with attempts to \u201ccensor or block stories\u201d that don\u2019t align with their preferred agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a tendency in the news media, on the part of some managers, to censor or block stories that don\u2019t fall in line with the message they want sent to the viewers,\u201d Attkisson said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal. \u201cI think that\u2019s really a very dangerous perspective to have.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes sense, and you&#8217;ll see a lot more stories like it. <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/advanced-television.com\/2014\/06\/03\/online-mobile-consumption-soars-among-sports-fans\/\">Online, mobile consumption soars among sports fans<\/a> means you should go where your audience is. <\/p>\n<p><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/data-trend\/internet-use\/internet-use-over-time\/\">Internet Use Over Time<\/a> is an excellent resource from Pew. <\/p>\n<p><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/faa-weighs-limited-commercial-drone-flights-1401734327\">FAA Weighs Letting Film, TV Industry Use Drones<\/a> reminds me: I still need a drone.<\/p>\n<p>And, possibly, a good night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What day is it? What planet am I on? Transnational travel in a day is a surrealistic thing. On the other hand, we traversed almost 7,000 miles in a day. I ran one mile today, having not put on those shoes in a week, and my body feeling pretty terrible both because of that and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35,25,10,57,44,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573886450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-journalism","category-links","category-photo","category-running","category-things-to-read","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886450","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=573886450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573886451,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886450\/revisions\/573886451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573886450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573886450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573886450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}