{"id":573888559,"date":"2015-09-14T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T23:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888559"},"modified":"2015-10-19T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T23:56:28","slug":"chasing-the-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/chasing-the-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I chased The Yankee for 42 miles. She started before me and I had to catch her. I knew the route and I knew she had a big head start. That was the game we played. A game we used to play when I could catch her more often. It took me about 31 miles to find her. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept15\/sept14.jpg\" alt=\"cycling\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure which I liked more, the mile where I averaged 22.6 or the earlier mile where I paced 23 miles per hour. I can do that on the right terrain, just long enough, for about two-and-a-half-minutes, to wonder what it would be like to do that over an entire ride, no matter the terrain. Terrain and topography being relative terms for where we ride. My app says I climbed only 1,700 feet during that ride. <\/p>\n<p><strong>I know people at<\/strong> Delta State. That campus had already had a weird and tough enough year before a senseless tragedy such as this. Later in the day we learned those particular people <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/c7c1647184a4498f968a8efac15b42a8\/latest-professor-killed-college-mississippi\">were safe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A review, <a href=\"http:\/\/gridironnow.com\/what-happens-if-telling-of-a-miracle-doesnt-move-you\/\">something I wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unless you are a Ricardo Louis or Chris Davis completist, you probably can skip the new \u201cMiracles on the Plains,\u201d which does not fit into the group of excellent documentaries. There are several reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It goes on like that for about 635 more words. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I chased The Yankee for 42 miles. She started before me and I had to catch her. I knew the route and I knew she had a big head start. That was the game we played. A game we used to play when I could catch her more often. It took me about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,25,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-links","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888559","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888560,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888559\/revisions\/573888560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}