{"id":573880697,"date":"2010-10-22T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880697"},"modified":"2010-10-23T04:54:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T09:54:48","slug":"a-little-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/10\/22\/a-little-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A little news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best part of the day was a wildfire. So we&#8217;ll just start and end there. I &#8220;committed journalism&#8221; via cell phone. <\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYKG0isC\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>The video made it on the front page of <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\">al.com<\/a> and on their new Montgomery section&#8217;s <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/montgomery\">front page<\/a>. I&#8217;m told it beat local television, which was useful considering the seven or eight miles of traffic that backed up behind the smoke and emergency trucks. Remember what we say: we&#8217;re all reporters now. Links are <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/montgomery\/2010\/10\/smoke_from_wildfires_backs_up.html\">here<\/a> and <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/montgomery\/2010\/10\/large_grass_fire_on_i-65_slowi.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If I knew they&#8217;d want the video I would have narrated the scene. (Note to self &#8230;) Anyway, it seems, though, that a truck hauling a trailer threw some sparks into the crisp and tender grass (we&#8217;re in a significant drought) and started a couple of blazes. It took more than three hours to get it all under control, which appeared to be just happening as we passed through. <\/p>\n<p>The Yankee and I are going to a home run derby tonight. Present and former Auburn baseball stars are swinging for the fences for charity. We&#8217;ll hear the wonderful ping of college ball and then come home for dinner and pie at home. That will be a delightful evening. <\/p>\n<p>I hope your weekend is just as grand. But without the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best part of the day was a wildfire. So we&#8217;ll just start and end there. I &#8220;committed journalism&#8221; via cell phone. The video made it on the front page of al.com and on their new Montgomery section&#8217;s front page. I&#8217;m told it beat local television, which was useful considering the seven or eight miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14,21,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573880697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-friday","category-pie-day","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573880697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573880701,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880697\/revisions\/573880701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573880697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573880697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573880697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}