{"id":573888731,"date":"2015-11-02T23:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T05:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888731"},"modified":"2016-07-01T23:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T04:18:35","slug":"some-auburn-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/some-auburn-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Auburn weekend notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at it again, then:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov15\/nov01.jpg\" alt=\"road\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Brian came down this weekend. He pronounced the scoreboard large:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov15\/nov02.jpg\" alt=\"Brian\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s been the attraction this year. The football team has struggled and continues to do so. They got outpaced in the second half by Ole Miss on Saturday. Can&#8217;t move the chains, kicking a lot of field goals, struggling to stop talented teams. It doesn&#8217;t feel like 4-4, but that&#8217;s what the record says. <\/p>\n<p>But that scoreboard! And the eagle flights, of course. Here&#8217;s Spirit&#8217;s flight from before the game. Note the alternating sections of orange and blue. Looked pretty good on TV, I&#8217;m sure. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QD0u8NLSMXI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just threw that video online without slapping a URL or any other branding on it. How daring! We walked up just in time to get a good spot near her cage, obviously. And then you can see she went all over the stadium. Spirit resides at the Southeast Raptor Center. He has a beak problem that requires regular maintenance, so she&#8217;ll always live there and do cool shows and flights like this. <\/p>\n<p>What is interesting to me, the second and third time I watched that video, is the camera work of the production staff. I shot that on my phone, so the lens is wide and has practically no focus. But they&#8217;re following her all over the stadium. (When I lose her, just look at the giant scoreboard.) They do a nice job of keeping her in the frame too. <\/p>\n<p>Hey, this is a wild animal. She can, and has, gone all of the places except the ones you expect. <\/p>\n<p>It is a cool thing to see. Scoreboard isn&#8217;t bad, either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at it again, then: Brian came down this weekend. He pronounced the scoreboard large: That&#8217;s been the attraction this year. The football team has struggled and continues to do so. They got outpaced in the second half by Ole Miss on Saturday. Can&#8217;t move the chains, kicking a lot of field goals, struggling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,22,3,10,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-football","category-friends","category-monday","category-photo","category-video","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888731","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=573888731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888734,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888731\/revisions\/573888734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}