{"id":573887581,"date":"2015-01-23T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887581"},"modified":"2015-01-28T02:36:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T08:36:55","slug":"three-quick-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/three-quick-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Three quick observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone know what this is?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan15\/jan49.jpg\" alt=\"La Ronde\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Two hints. First, the seal, which is awesome, says &#8220;La Ronde.&#8221; Second, it doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with bicycles. <\/p>\n<p>Saw this sign today: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan15\/jan50.jpg\" alt=\"La Ronde\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It could be that they are saying they don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll stick with your resolutions. Or they could be saying that maybe your troubles aren&#8217;t so bad, after all. Why, they&#8217;re positively just like those resolutions, which you probably won&#8217;t keep. Or maybe they have just resolved to state their resolutions in a concise manner. Then, you see, they are short, and wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if your troubles were equally short?<\/p>\n<p>Or it could be that they are saying that resolutions are issues of choice. And how you handle them is a choice. So shouldn&#8217;t your troubles be those things, too?<\/p>\n<p>But then again, &#8220;resolutions&#8221; is longer than &#8220;troubles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot to consider in that sign. Two of my resolutions have expired just thinking about it.  <\/p>\n<p>Auburn gymnastics tonight, 6,200-plus were there:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/OIEKuLOtIKK\/embed\/simple\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script async src=\"\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tigers <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auburntigers.com\/sports\/w-gym\/spec-rel\/012315aaa.html\">upset the visiting 12th-ranked Arkansas<\/a> squad. Looked good doing it, too. They host Air Force next week.<\/p>\n<p>The La Ronde? It is a holder for an old bathroom air freshener, long since out of use. But, still, it hangs on a wall. Just waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone know what this is? Two hints. First, the seal, which is awesome, says &#8220;La Ronde.&#8221; Second, it doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with bicycles. Saw this sign today: It could be that they are saying they don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll stick with your resolutions. Or they could be saying that maybe your troubles aren&#8217;t so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,14,10,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-auburn","category-friday","category-photo","category-vine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887581","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=573887581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887585,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887581\/revisions\/573887585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}