{"id":573883273,"date":"2012-05-21T22:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T03:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883273"},"modified":"2012-05-26T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:31:16","slug":"there-are-no-clever-title-on-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/there-are-no-clever-title-on-mondays\/","title":{"rendered":"There are no clever title on Mondays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went for a ride yesterday. Well, I went for a ride. The Yankee is in training and so she did something called a brick. This involves swimming and riding and I&#8217;ve no idea at all how bricks have entered into this.<\/p>\n<p>So she swam in the neighborhood pool. The Olympic pool was closed, on account of their being no Olympians there that day. (There usually are. We live in a place where she gets to be drowned in the wake of people showing off Olympic ring tattoos. Not a bad perk to the locale.)<\/p>\n<p>We counted out the laps, measuring and doing math. The neighborhood pool is small; she did a lot of laps. And then she hopped on her bike and I hopped on mine and I chased her through the countryside. <\/p>\n<p>She was moving on well. I had great legs, owing to taking a day or two off, perhaps. But I was also going on the longest ride I&#8217;ve been on in a while, so I wanted to pace myself. <\/p>\n<p>I caught her on a hill after about eight miles. I&#8217;m a little bit stronger on hills and this was a series of three respectable climbs. She caught me again later, I let her play out in front and then chased her down just before home. She took the direct route and I meandered through the neighborhood. It was a 20.75 mile ride. Felt great.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d intended to take a few wide pictures to celebrate the day, but there was too much huffing.<\/p>\n<p>Did take this somewhere along the way though:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may12\/may28.jpg\" alt=\"flowers\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pretty as a roadside wildflower can be, it was the three buds on this one that intrigued me. <\/p>\n<p><strong>And now<\/strong> for something beautiful:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-akm.vmixcore.com\/vmixcore\/js?auto_play=0&amp;cc_default_off=1&amp;player_name=uvp&amp;width=640&amp;height=415&amp;player_id=1aa0b90d7d31305a75d7fa03bc403f5a&amp;t=V0T3mSfMYA1v2Ues6IY_Q6rPf4JtV7Qzf3\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That is the Lyrid meteor shower, from space. Did you catch Florida as it moved by? <\/p>\n<p>Astronaut Don Pettit on the ISS took the shots last month and they were converted into the inspiring quasi-video. The Lyrid meteors, dust trails from the comet Thatcher, have been observed from Earth for thousands of years. I learned all of this from a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/space-news\/2012\/05\/video_see_a_lyrid_meteor_from.html\">Huntsville reporter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally<\/strong>: the grading is done. Now on to other things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went for a ride yesterday. Well, I went for a ride. The Yankee is in training and so she did something called a brick. This involves swimming and riding and I&#8217;ve no idea at all how bricks have entered into this. So she swam in the neighborhood pool. The Olympic pool was closed, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,40,28,3,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-cycling","category-iphone","category-monday","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883273","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=573883273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883292,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883273\/revisions\/573883292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}