{"id":573891011,"date":"2019-02-05T22:54:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T03:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891011"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:35:24","slug":"we-were-somewhere-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/02\/05\/we-were-somewhere-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"We were somewhere in England &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t told this story in a while, so I may as well tell it again. <\/p>\n<p>We were somewhere in England, see. I know precisely where we were, but it just seems to sound better that way. We were somewhere in England when someone took this picture:  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb19\/feb03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We were in England, you see. And that was the first leg of a terrific multi-nation trip. And I was tired of taking pictures where you could see a lot of us and a little of what was going on behind us. Rather impulsively, for me, I went to a store that sold clothes and other odd things that people think are a good idea in the store and bought a selfie stick. A friend took the picture above. The picture I was taking looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb19\/feb04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Right now we&#8217;re discussing a vacation for this summer and starting to dive into the details of it. We&#8217;re planning a friend trip. And one of the selling points is, apparently, that I have a selfie stick. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, sure, The Yankee made fun of it, but she quickly came to admit that it occasionally helps make better photos. She still makes fun of it.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the selfie stick is pink.<\/p>\n<p>(It was the only color the store had that day.)<\/p>\n<p>(I told you it was impulsive.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t told this story in a while, so I may as well tell it again. We were somewhere in England, see. I know precisely where we were, but it just seems to sound better that way. We were somewhere in England when someone took this picture: We were in England, you see. And that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22,6,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-friends","category-memories","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891011","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=573891011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891012,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891011\/revisions\/573891012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}