{"id":573891160,"date":"2019-04-15T23:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891160"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:08:05","slug":"and-down-the-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/04\/15\/and-down-the-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"And down the stretch &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring might just be here. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr19\/apr14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because, you know, middle of April is about when it should show up.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr19\/apr15.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Little 500 races were this weekend, which is how spring finally knows to make its appearance. I got to go to the men&#8217;s race on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Mericuh. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#39;s race!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Little500?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Little500<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUBloomington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iubloomington<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mxXGx3Xl5L\">pic.twitter.com\/mxXGx3Xl5L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1117137267422838785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cutters win the 69th running of the men&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Little500?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Little500<\/a>. It was their 14th win. They were also the defending champions, as noted by their yellow kit. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUBloomington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUBloomington<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a3XuPskySO\">pic.twitter.com\/a3XuPskySO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1117168508612300801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(Spring, when it does make its grand old way here, can be rather nice. This means there might be more than a few flower photos in our near future.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring might just be here. Because, you know, middle of April is about when it should show up. The Little 500 races were this weekend, which is how spring finally knows to make its appearance. I got to go to the men&#8217;s race on Saturday. &#39;Mericuh. Let&#39;s race!#Little500 @iubloomington pic.twitter.com\/mxXGx3Xl5L &mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73,3,10,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indiana","category-iu","category-monday","category-photo","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891160","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=573891160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891163,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891160\/revisions\/573891163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}