{"id":573890650,"date":"2016-12-19T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890650"},"modified":"2018-03-19T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:31:12","slug":"it-still-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/it-still-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"It still counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if it was a training run, or criminally slow. It does, somehow, count, that it was quite chilly and very foggy. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s important here is that another half-marathon was put into the books. A half-marathon was completed at an arbitrarily important birthday. (I do not know what is happening.)<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec16\/13miles.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(Today, meanwhile, it is 2 degrees. Two. Dos. Zwei. Deux.)<\/p>\n<p>No individual mile splits were good, but that&#8217;s not important right now. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When the Bachus Classic Orchestra performs a bit of Peer Gynt and the 9th &#8230; you watch the children&#39;s reactions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bHkK95ReO1\">https:\/\/t.co\/bHkK95ReO1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/810927776190566400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">And recall Banco Sabadell, the Vall\u00e8s Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l&#39;\u00d2pera and Coral Belles Arts choirs: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/98gtV6DtlE\">https:\/\/t.co\/98gtV6DtlE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/810929481477136384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are capable of so much. So many beautiful, wondrous, things. We should remind each other of that more often. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/13bL3TZFRq\">https:\/\/t.co\/13bL3TZFRq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/810931359623643136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if it was a training run, or criminally slow. It does, somehow, count, that it was quite chilly and very foggy. What&#8217;s important here is that another half-marathon was put into the books. A half-marathon was completed at an arbitrarily important birthday. (I do not know what is happening.) (Today, meanwhile, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,52,3,39,57,31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573890650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-i-do-not-know-what-is-happening","category-monday","category-music","category-running","category-twitter","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890650","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=573890650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573890655,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890650\/revisions\/573890655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573890650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573890650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573890650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}