{"id":573889633,"date":"2017-04-13T22:05:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T03:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889633"},"modified":"2017-04-18T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:46:20","slug":"racing-the-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/racing-the-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing the flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a fine day, thanks for asking. Rode to work on my bicycle. Coasted, really. You don&#8217;t want to overheat too early in the day and all that. I rode home a bit faster. The terrain is more favorable and it doesn&#8217;t hurt to sweat. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pedaled home, passed four other cyclists. Two didn&#39;t know we were racing; two were on training wheels, but that&#39;s not important right now.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/852674674223972354\">April 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But I lovely day for it. Here&#8217;s a photo of a flower I took to belabor the point:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr17\/apr24.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just across the street from the office, so that&#8217;s nice to see on a trip out for lunch. It is a day worth being outdoors. But, inside, I found this story about the work some other people are doing outside, in the great northwestern expanses of Canada: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/\/fave.api.cnn.io\/v1\/fav\/?video=world\/2017\/04\/10\/ancient-village-found-canada-orig-vstop.cnn&#038;customer=cnn&#038;edition=domestic&#038;env=prod\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I wonder, if you framed archeology as playing in the mud and dirt if more of us would be digging up clumps of the stuff in far flung places. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a fine day, thanks for asking. Rode to work on my bicycle. Coasted, really. You don&#8217;t want to overheat too early in the day and all that. I rode home a bit faster. The terrain is more favorable and it doesn&#8217;t hurt to sweat. Pedaled home, passed four other cyclists. Two didn&#39;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-photo","category-thursday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889633","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=573889633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889634,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889633\/revisions\/573889634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}