{"id":573892493,"date":"2020-08-31T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892493"},"modified":"2020-09-27T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:55:46","slug":"arrivederci-augst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/08\/31\/arrivederci-augst\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrivederci, Augst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re doing that thing where we blame everything on the year, and we are doing that thing, let us do it quickly. Let&#8217;s divest ourselves of September. Let us brush aside October and ignore November. Bring on the grimness of December and weird, unfulfilled holidays. <\/p>\n<p>Or at least let us move past August. It&#8217;ll all be &#8230; different &#8230; by December. Better different? Who among us can say? It will be different-different. So let&#8217;s consider that.<\/p>\n<p>The cats are in perfect agreement.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug20\/aug38.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s assume they are. Whenever they sit this closely together, I&#8217;m convinced, something is up, and it may as well be this. They&#8217;re trying, in their own cat way, to whisk away the calendar too. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome, humanity.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerreeds.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, we held a little miniature Olympic distance triathlon. The Yankee was supposed to do a formal one that day, but, you know, 2020. So, not having that opportunity, we ran the #GoRenGo tri.<\/p>\n<p>We went out to the lake early in the morning. Early enough that we were out there alone. (Don&#8217;t think I didn&#8217;t notice the hour.)<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug20\/aug39.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And she swam a quick and easy 1,500 yards. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug20\/aug40.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Exiting the water, she had a T1 right there on the lake and hopped on her bike and set out on a 24-mile ride.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug20\/aug41.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I tracked her at two points on the road, and then she got back to the house for T2, and then set out for a nice easy 10K. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug20\/aug42.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I followed her around on my bike for part of her run. She had a great swim and ride, but didn&#8217;t like her run. I&#8217;m looking at the times though, and she&#8217;s still amazing, even when I&#8217;m the only support on the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re doing that thing where we blame everything on the year, and we are doing that thing, let us do it quickly. Let&#8217;s divest ourselves of September. Let us brush aside October and ignore November. Bring on the grimness of December and weird, unfulfilled holidays. Or at least let us move past August. It&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday","category-photo","category-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892493","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=573892493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892495,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892493\/revisions\/573892495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}