{"id":573892416,"date":"2020-07-27T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T23:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892416"},"modified":"2020-07-30T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T05:58:09","slug":"the-menagerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/the-menagerie\/","title":{"rendered":"The menagerie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All are well here after another quiet weekend. We had a bike ride on Saturday morning and had the traditional weekly Chick-fil-A. Chatted with some friends that evening and did a lot of reading yesterday. It was a pleasant way to spend another stay-at-home weekend.  <\/p>\n<p>The cats are having a fine time of it. Poseidon enjoyed checking out the box their food came in. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july20\/july41.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We have to hide the bag because, eventually, he&#8217;ll become interested in the plastic and begin to chew through it. He&#8217;s a continual piece of work. But the box proved a good distraction for putting the food away in a closet that he will <em>sprint<\/em> toward should the door open at any time, day or night. <\/p>\n<p>Phoebe had a nice night of it. This is comfortable. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july20\/july42.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>She stayed like that for more than an hour. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back to running, after a six week layoff. I&#8217;ve decided to concentrate on pace for a while, so I&#8217;m working on bringing down mile times. Today was my fourth run back and I&#8217;ve chipped away 35 or 44 seconds from that first run, depending on which of the two equally suspect apps you prefer. I bet, now that I&#8217;m writing these numbers out, that I&#8217;ll hit a wall later this week, but everything feels pretty good so far. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no illusions of ever seeing any of the actually respectable times of my youth. Not that youthful anymore, after all. But I&#8217;m just in the top quartile for my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armystudyguide.com\/content\/army_board_study_guide_topics\/physical_training\/apft-male-2mile-run-stand.shtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">age group<\/a>, and today&#8217;s pace puts me in the top half of the 17-21 cohort. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest differences being they could probably breathe when they were done and they&#8217;ll be able to move tomorrow. It&#8217;s sometimes an open question these days.<\/p>\n<p>I walked by this little turtle right after my run. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july20\/july43.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t especially happy to see me, but we&#8217;ve only just met. So I took a quick picture and let him go on his way. You don&#8217;t disturb turtle buddies when they are on a mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are well here after another quiet weekend. We had a bike ride on Saturday morning and had the traditional weekly Chick-fil-A. Chatted with some friends that evening and did a lot of reading yesterday. It was a pleasant way to spend another stay-at-home weekend. The cats are having a fine time of it. Poseidon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,3,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-monday","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892416","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=573892416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892419,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892416\/revisions\/573892419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}