{"id":573892496,"date":"2020-09-01T21:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T01:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892496"},"modified":"2020-09-27T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:13:09","slug":"and-happy-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/09\/01\/and-happy-september\/","title":{"rendered":"And happy September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month will be totally better, don&#8217;t you agree?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some roadside flowers I found. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept20\/sept01.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was standing on the side of the road for the same reason that every guy does, so they can take a picture of their wife as they ride by on their bicycle. You saw that photo yesterday. But what you didn&#8217;t see was all of the cars that went by wondering what I was doing on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Do people still think like that? Probably not. Everyone here is very particular about studiously avoiding interacting with others. In the car that&#8217;s easiest done, of course, by people staring at their phone while driving. <\/p>\n<p>One of those sorts of drivers almost flattened me at a stop sign today. I looked at him and said, &#8220;OK, Boomer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We saw this car this weekend. Not sure if the driver was on the phone, but at least that&#8217;s a self-aware car owner.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept20\/sept02.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Unless they&#8217;re un-self-aware. Maybe their friends or family members are putting stickers on the back of the car and the owner hasn&#8217;t caught on. I check my tires every so often, but, really: How often do you examine your vehicle for rogue stickers, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month will be totally better, don&#8217;t you agree? Here are some roadside flowers I found. I was standing on the side of the road for the same reason that every guy does, so they can take a picture of their wife as they ride by on their bicycle. You saw that photo yesterday. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892496","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=573892496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892497,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892496\/revisions\/573892497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}