{"id":573887380,"date":"2014-12-28T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887380"},"modified":"2014-12-30T02:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T08:55:07","slug":"catching-up-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/12\/28\/catching-up-160\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post of extra pictures, brought to you by Extra Photos Almagamated!<\/p>\n<p>Doing up the northern experience in the proper fashion:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec36.jpg\" alt=\"Dunkin\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They make their own chocolate here. I&#8217;ve never tried it, because it costs $3, but I&#8217;m curious about what a seagull tastes like:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec37.jpg\" alt=\"Coastline confections\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Never put on someone else&#8217;s glasses. This happens:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec38.jpg\" alt=\"Selfie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The traditional shrimp cocktail, of which you may never have enough:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec39.jpg\" alt=\"shrimp\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It is a pretty special thing when Sammi lounges on you:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec40.jpg\" alt=\"Sammi The Love Dog\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My wife&#8217;s godfather&#8217;s train world is quite impressive. The next several shots are from an industrialized city that is always in progress:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec41.jpg\" alt=\"train\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec42.jpg\" alt=\"train\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We saw this locomotive in Denali, Alaska. He&#8217;s ridden it. And when you&#8217;re a train guy, and you ride a train, you go buy the train:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec45.jpg\" alt=\"model\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec43.jpg\" alt=\"train\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And now a bit about model details. You can&#8217;t even see most of the ice factory unless you&#8217;re leaning directly over it, but check this out:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec46.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s even got distressed tracks, and earth erosion on the berms. The man is masterful:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec44.jpg\" alt=\"train\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seaboard_Coast_Line_Railroad\">The Seaboard<\/a> was running when we visited yesterday. From 1967 until 1983 the Seaboard system ran from Florida to Virginia:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec47.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If these are the last Christmas lights we&#8217;ll see this year, let&#8217;s be happy their huge:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec48.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Part of my run today:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec14\/dec49.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post of extra pictures, brought to you by Extra Photos Almagamated! Doing up the northern experience in the proper fashion: They make their own chocolate here. I&#8217;ve never tried it, because it costs $3, but I&#8217;m curious about what a seagull tastes like: Never put on someone else&#8217;s glasses. This happens: The traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-site","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887380","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=573887380"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887387,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887380\/revisions\/573887387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}