{"id":573889170,"date":"2016-04-25T22:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T03:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889170"},"modified":"2016-11-30T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T21:24:26","slug":"scenes-from-a-weekend-of-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/scenes-from-a-weekend-of-riding\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from a weekend of riding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got in about 60 miles on the bikes this weekend. We went over to Columbus on Saturday, a beautiful, warm day, to ride the bulk of it. Here is the Riverwalk:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr38.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You have to time this right so you can either avoid, or run into, the maximum amount of pedestrians. Your windows are narrow over there. But look at that sky!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr39.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I thought I would take a selfie. And I did, but this one turned out even cooler:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr40.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess I pressed the shutter button before the sensor compensated for the light. That white background is not Photoshopped, that&#8217;s just the way it turned out. <\/p>\n<p>My Specialized and the Chattahoochee:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr41.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Really we go over to Columbus to ride for the late breakfast after. Can we talk food for a second? Let&#8217;s talk food for a second. As a baby, I gave up the bottle relatively quickly. And &#8212; being raised in the deep, deep, deeeeep South &#8212; I was probably weened on biscuits and gravy. So understand: I have a frame of reference here. Plucked Up Chicken &#038; Biscuits has the best gravy biscuit I&#8217;ve ever tasted:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr42.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m from the South, of course, so I know which I speak here. Also, someone thought it&#8217;d be a good idea to lightly batter some tender chicken and then put it in a spicy pineapple marmalade. This was a good idea:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr43.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Go have some. Seriously. It&#8217;ll change your day.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s roses at home:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr16\/apr44.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They just bloom and bloom and require nothing of us. Pretty incredible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got in about 60 miles on the bikes this weekend. We went over to Columbus on Saturday, a beautiful, warm day, to ride the bulk of it. Here is the Riverwalk: You have to time this right so you can either avoid, or run into, the maximum amount of pedestrians. Your windows are narrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-food","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889170","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=573889170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889175,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889170\/revisions\/573889175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}