{"id":573882709,"date":"2012-01-22T18:36:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573882709"},"modified":"2012-01-22T18:36:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:36:03","slug":"catching-up-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/01\/22\/catching-up-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an unrelated story below the pictures. Keep on reading.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s all rah-rah:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan12\/jan20.jpg\" alt=\"gymnastics\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So is she:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan12\/jan21.jpg\" alt=\"gymnastics\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Auburn on the floor against Georgia:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan12\/jan22.jpg\" alt=\"gymnastics\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They are getting <em>really<\/em> close to a shocking upset. In their home opener, and posting a season-high score, the Tigers narrowly fell to the Gym Dogs,  <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auburntigers.com\/sports\/w-gym\/recaps\/012012aaa.html\">195.975-195.600<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan12\/jan23.jpg\" alt=\"gymnastics\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I like to think she&#8217;s yelling &#8220;MERCY IS FOR THE WEAK!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan12\/jan24.jpg\" alt=\"gymnastics\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this on <a TARGET=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/573882678\/\">Thursday<\/a> and have received the nod to tell the story on the grounds that it is funny now, but it wasn&#8217;t then.<\/p>\n<p>(It was marginally that day, too.)<\/p>\n<p>Just after we got married The Yankee was throwing something into the outdoor garbage cans one fine, sunny afternoon. In that house the large cans lived outside along a brick wall. She walked out the door, bag in hand and around to the large rubbermaid can. <\/p>\n<p>From inside I heard a shriek. Through the window I could see her doing what can only be described as the &#8220;Ewww! Ewww! Icky!&#8221; dance. The neighborhood noticed.<\/p>\n<p><em>At least I know she is not hurt,<\/em> I thought, <em>but just merely disturbed.<\/em> I walked out to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is something in the can!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Besides the garbage bag?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s something alive in there!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was daytime, so it probably wasn&#8217;t a raccoon. But the can was upright, so there was no way to know what was really in there. My lovely bride had not bothered to consider the animal&#8217;s taxonomic nomenclature and was no help.<\/p>\n<p>I really didn&#8217;t want to lean over the garbage can, find a cornered skunk and get sprayed in the face. I fetched my camera and assumed the outstretched arms, blind shot posture. After two tries I had a picture and could identify the invading critter. <\/p>\n<p>It was a possum, baring his teeth, scared out of his little varmint mind.<\/p>\n<p><em>City girls.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Picking up the almost empty can I carried him far, far away. Flipping the can on its side &#8212; I don&#8217;t know if possums can climb slick surfaces &#8212; the little guy scampered off, shot her a look and scooted up a tree. I bet he was <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/18\/nyregion\/in-brooklyn-suspicious-passenger-with-a-tail.html\">somehow involved in this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an unrelated story below the pictures. Keep on reading. She&#8217;s all rah-rah: So is she: Auburn on the floor against Georgia: They are getting really close to a shocking upset. In their home opener, and posting a season-high score, the Tigers narrowly fell to the Gym Dogs, 195.975-195.600. I like to think she&#8217;s yelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573882709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-memories","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882709","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=573882709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573882718,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882709\/revisions\/573882718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573882709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573882709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573882709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}