{"id":573891175,"date":"2019-04-22T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891175"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:35:53","slug":"maybe-it-is-really-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/04\/22\/maybe-it-is-really-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe it is really spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr19\/apr23.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well here. You sit inside and look at everyone else&#8217;s photographs and wonder how it could be beautiful in every other locale. Surely that&#8217;s not possible. Everywhere in the country? <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr19\/radar.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Everywhere in the country. Except here, where the state color is gray. (The colors are actually blue and gold, like the flag. But that&#8217;s only because there was a run on charcoal gray dye when Paul Hadley designed the thing in 1917. Had to be.)<\/p>\n<p>It was pretty today, finally:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr19\/apr24.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr19\/apr25.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A picture perfect postcard day, indeed:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr19\/apr26.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr19\/apr27.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is the show that wrapped on Friday. It got a bit sappy and silly, but that&#8217;s OK. It is the last episode of the award-winning Bloomington Breakfast Club for the year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mG3TPiY2XLE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m tracking down something for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaurnSmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LaurnSmith<\/a> and I don&#39;t know if I found the right thing yet, but I don&#39;t care. I just saw Col. Buzz Aldrin and Sgt. Dakota Meyer, who wears the Medal of Honor, reading a part of the Declaration of Independence. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q9AtBFoJ9D\">https:\/\/t.co\/Q9AtBFoJ9D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1120415008444375040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend looked like this: Well here. You sit inside and look at everyone else&#8217;s photographs and wonder how it could be beautiful in every other locale. Surely that&#8217;s not possible. Everywhere in the country? Everywhere in the country. Except here, where the state color is gray. (The colors are actually blue and gold, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73,3,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indiana","category-iu","category-monday","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891175","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=573891175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891177,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891175\/revisions\/573891177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}