{"id":573894744,"date":"2022-08-31T22:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T02:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573894744"},"modified":"2022-09-01T21:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T01:40:58","slug":"pedaled-downtown-it-was-great-830-on-a-wednesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2022\/08\/31\/pedaled-downtown-it-was-great-830-on-a-wednesday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedaled downtown it was great, 8:30 on a Wednesday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am running out of ways to vamp for this demolition project. No big updates on the Poplars Building today. It is amusing, a few people on social media have marked the occasion &#8212; one gentleman flew his drone over it &#8212; but no one is lamenting the building. One of the best, and kindest mentions, is from what&#8217;s left of the local paper, which called it &#8220;a city landmark with countless, shifting identities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;re just shifting rubble. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug22\/aug82.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The saddest part of all of this, truly, is what&#8217;s happening to the local paper, which has never been in that building, but it is similarly being pulled apart.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUSTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUSTV<\/a> begins their 20-year anniversary with the 2022-2023 debut of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUSTVsports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUSTVsports<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cLZ30QaPvb\">pic.twitter.com\/cLZ30QaPvb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1565107205526937600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The late nights begin again for me. It was a 6 p.m. production, which wrapped at 8 p.m. today. One production and two shows down, 41 shoots and 72 shows to go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m exhausted already.<\/p>\n<p>But I did get a nice evening view of the sun streaming into the building at one point.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug22\/aug83.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We wrapped everything up and I rode my bike back to the house in the last bit of the daylight. There was less traffic, meaning I got to go faster, and I did the whole trip &#8212; including three stop signs, six red-light intersections, a roundabout and a left turn &#8212; without putting a foot on the ground.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done that three times now, so I need a new goal. Please submit your ideas.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannermusic.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Time for a few more songs from the Monday night rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll show. The headliner was Barenaked Ladies, and because they were the main attraction I&#8217;m stretching this content a few more days. <\/p>\n<p>This song, Enid, is 30 years old. And the band genuinely looks like they still enjoy this one. Huge hit in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DEswRwNSMYg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was their second single, and off their debut album. Their first single was a cover of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Cockburn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Cockburn<\/a> classic. That same year, and also from their debut album, they released Brian Wilson. Here&#8217;s the beginning and end of that Monday night performance, because I enjoy the search for a coherent mesh point.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rO3uECh9kiY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brian Wilson covered that song, by the way. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bjeWqXyVLu4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More music, and perhaps some other interesting stuff tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am running out of ways to vamp for this demolition project. No big updates on the Poplars Building today. It is amusing, a few people on social media have marked the occasion &#8212; one gentleman flew his drone over it &#8212; but no one is lamenting the building. One of the best, and kindest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,73,39,31,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573894744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-iu","category-music","category-twitter","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894744","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=573894744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573894746,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894744\/revisions\/573894746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573894744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573894744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573894744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}