{"id":573886896,"date":"2014-09-23T23:22:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T04:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886896"},"modified":"2014-10-01T02:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:51:53","slug":"just-some-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/just-some-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Just some pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had these shots from my ride on Sunday and I&#8217;ve been staring at them. The colors are beautiful. The light is perfect. The road just sings to you. There&#8217;s a great whir, whir, whirring in my imagination from the rubber tire on the road. When you get close enough you can smell the clay: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept14\/sept39.jpg\" alt=\"fence\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On my bike I am always trying to ride hard and fast, because I am not fast. But in my daydreams I&#8217;m lazily drifting onto the center line, where the road noise is different, quieter. When I have the space to ride on a painted lane I always wonder if it moves faster. Maybe the paint makes less friction, somehow. It is quieter. There&#8217;s just your breathe there, just the whoosh of the wind in your ears. And then you can really see the things around you:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept14\/sept40.jpg\" alt=\"field\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not far from there at all, really, I looked up the road and saw the prettiest site I&#8217;ve seen on an otherwise normal, and freshly paved, ribbon of road:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept14\/sept41.jpg\" alt=\"road\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And I started doing the only other kind of riding I know how to do, the slow back and forth tilts from the shoulder to centerline, making big swooping curves over the asphalt. Sine waves. Sign language. <\/p>\n<p>In my mind I&#8217;m sitting on the saddle. In reality I&#8217;m sitting in my office chair, wondering why it is lately less comfortable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had these shots from my ride on Sunday and I&#8217;ve been staring at them. The colors are beautiful. The light is perfect. The road just sings to you. There&#8217;s a great whir, whir, whirring in my imagination from the rubber tire on the road. When you get close enough you can smell the clay: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,43,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573886896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-overwriting","category-photo","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886896","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=573886896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573886898,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886896\/revisions\/573886898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573886896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573886896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573886896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}