{"id":573889445,"date":"2017-02-20T10:19:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889445"},"modified":"2017-02-20T10:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:19:23","slug":"signs-of-spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/02\/20\/signs-of-spring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a beautiful weekend here, how about you? When the clouds finally moved out on Saturday it got up into the 60s. And it stayed sunny on Sunday, too. Early spring? I&#8217;ll take it. <\/p>\n<p>I had a nice medium-sized run. It should have been longer, but that&#8217;s the way of it sometimes. I did seven miles and then got hungry. I guess I needed more than a bowl of cereal. So I went inside and had a sandwich and went back out. By then, though, I&#8217;d cooled off, so I only did three more miles.<\/p>\n<p>So this means I ran 10 miles and that was disappointed. <\/p>\n<p>I do not know what is happening. <\/p>\n<p>But! I saw the first new green stuff of the year: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb17\/feb22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Just behind that, was this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb17\/feb23.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, you can walk or run parallel to that fence and it just &#8230; ends. There&#8217;s no corner, no gate, no extra posts where the wire should be. It just stops. So I&#8217;m not sure how this is supposed to keep anyone in or out. <\/p>\n<p>Down the other way, about a half mile, was this handsome old American sycamore:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb17\/feb24.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In a few more weeks, maybe, the trees will be in bloom. Won&#8217;t that be a sight?<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday I rode my bike to campus. I&#8217;d forgotten to bring something home on Friday and I needed it and it was such a beautiful day and so I slow-pedaled for about an hour and that was delightful. Just a beautiful day. I shot some video on my bike ride that is now on the front page of the site. I like that path, and I like the scenery, but I was trying to be sure I didn&#8217;t hit a few walkers while I was shooting that. I&#8217;ll have to go back and try again when there&#8217;s something on the trees.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a beautiful weekend here, how about you? When the clouds finally moved out on Saturday it got up into the 60s. And it stayed sunny on Sunday, too. Early spring? I&#8217;ll take it. I had a nice medium-sized run. It should have been longer, but that&#8217;s the way of it sometimes. I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,10,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-monday","category-photo","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889445","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=573889445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889446,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889445\/revisions\/573889446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}