{"id":573889145,"date":"2016-04-13T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889145"},"modified":"2016-11-26T21:45:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T03:45:07","slug":"everything-in-this-post-is-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/04\/13\/everything-in-this-post-is-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything in this post is wonderful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a 2,500 meter swim in this lane today.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Only took 800 meters to feel &#8220;good,&#8221; which is a lot, even for me. But this is the second time I&#8217;ve been in the #pool in a good long while. After the sluggishness and frustration passed and the breathing and normal muscle sensations returned it was a good swim.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s OK, when you didn&#8217;t grimace at watching your clock times you can always look up for a bit of inspiration. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr23.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t help but pull a little harder. Also, the idea that at least two Olympians or a half-dozen All Americans are around at any given time is a powerful motivator.<\/p>\n<p>I like to write things like, &#8220;Owww, my arms hurt for 800 meters&#8221; and then find incredible links like this one: <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/13\/11420394\/quadriplegic-brain-chip-implant-move-fingers-batelle-neurolife\">A paralyzed man\u2019s brain implant let him move his fingers to play a guitar video game<\/a>. That guy, one of four people in the study, has found that he can use his hand again for the first time in six years. We live in the future. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a beautiful video I found today. The more videos shot on phones I see, the more I am convinced that it is really the editing, and the excess, that are the keys:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/162635638\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a 2,500 meter swim in this lane today. Only took 800 meters to feel &#8220;good,&#8221; which is a lot, even for me. But this is the second time I&#8217;ve been in the #pool in a good long while. After the sluggishness and frustration passed and the breathing and normal muscle sensations returned it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,56,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-swimming","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889145","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=573889145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889147,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889145\/revisions\/573889147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}