{"id":573888582,"date":"2015-09-18T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888582"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T21:38:16","slug":"when-the-blacktop-sings-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/when-the-blacktop-sings-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"When the blacktop sings to you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, now, scenes from an all-important, utterly inconsequential and I hope never elusive 20-mile bike ride. <\/p>\n<p>I have some history on this road, I realized, as I pedaled down it today. And not just because I&#8217;ve made tiny circles with my feet on it before. I&#8217;ve raced on it. I have friends that grew up on this road. I re-learned to run on the path that meanders alongside it. I&#8217;ve been caught in the rain on this road and failed to outrun hail on this road. I have history on that little ribbon of asphalt, pretty neat.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept15\/sept18.jpg\" alt=\"cycling\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To be sure, I do spend a lot of my time on this road with this view:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept15\/sept19.jpg\" alt=\"cycling\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On a different road. Same ride, different light:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept15\/sept20.jpg\" alt=\"cycling\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What was going on on the other side of the camera at that same moment:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept15\/sept21.jpg\" alt=\"cycling\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And now, for two podcasts. If you like Arkansas:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"75%\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/224336327&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And if you prefer your football to be full of Gator bites:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"75%\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/224341693&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some other stuff <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\">here<\/a> and <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/multimedialinks.wordpress.com\/\">there<\/a>. Mostly, though, that road, and this weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, now, scenes from an all-important, utterly inconsequential and I hope never elusive 20-mile bike ride. I have some history on this road, I realized, as I pedaled down it today. And not just because I&#8217;ve made tiny circles with my feet on it before. I&#8217;ve raced on it. I have friends that grew up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,36,14,6,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-football","category-friday","category-memories","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888582","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888583,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888582\/revisions\/573888583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}