{"id":573886933,"date":"2014-09-29T23:28:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T04:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886933"},"modified":"2014-10-06T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T04:32:08","slug":"so-what-did-you-do-on-your-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/so-what-did-you-do-on-your-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"So what did you do on your weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army Ranger, Sgt. 1st Class <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hlntv.com\/video\/2012\/10\/04\/one-most-motivated-people-ive-ever-met\">Cedric King<\/a> ran a half Ironman. He swam 1.2 miles. He cycled 56 miles. He finished his day with a half marathon, 13.1 miles of running. King stepped on an IED in Afghanistan in 2012. Earlier this year he finished the Boston Marathon. He is a hard man. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept14\/sept65.jpg\" alt=\"King\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Rangers lead the way.<\/p>\n<p>He passed on his second loop just after I&#8217;d seen a woman, of whom I wrote: &#8220;Just gave a high five to perhaps the last contestant on the course, looking beat, looking haggard. Looking determined, looking awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was awesome, but I&#8217;d already seen King once as well. Before <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soldiercare.org\/2014\/05\/u-s-army-sgt-first-class-cedric-kings-testimony\/\">Cedric King<\/a> came back by the locals started pulling up the cones. <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ExIVlVgToc8\">Cedric King<\/a> just kept motoring along, having run, twice, past signs with head shots placed in honor of his brothers in arms who gave their lives in the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>I slapped him on the back as he came by the first time, and I wanted to go run through a wall after that. Demonstrations of will are always an impressive site. <\/p>\n<p>(All of those Cedric King links are to different things. You could do worse, today, than spending a few minutes to click and read and listen to those.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>I feel good today<\/strong>. I am tired. I feel like I rode a bike for about three hours and then drove for about four. Mostly because I did. Today, then, is just kind of a get-through-it day. Here are some pictures of trains that have been tagged.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept14\/sept60.jpg\" alt=\"train\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept14\/sept61.jpg\" alt=\"train\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept14\/sept62.jpg\" alt=\"train\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept14\/sept63.jpg\" alt=\"train\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept14\/sept64.jpg\" alt=\"train\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hey, graffiti has always been popular on this site. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder how Sgt. 1st Class Cedric King is feeling today. Awesome, I hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Ranger, Sgt. 1st Class Cedric King ran a half Ironman. He swam 1.2 miles. He cycled 56 miles. He finished his day with a half marathon, 13.1 miles of running. King stepped on an IED in Afghanistan in 2012. Earlier this year he finished the Boston Marathon. He is a hard man. Rangers lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3,10,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573886933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-monday","category-photo","category-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886933","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=573886933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573886938,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886933\/revisions\/573886938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573886933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573886933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573886933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}