{"id":573892530,"date":"2020-09-17T22:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892530"},"modified":"2020-10-01T00:27:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T04:27:49","slug":"making-it-through-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/09\/17\/making-it-through-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Making it through the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, this is after work, before dinner and before a mountain stage of the Tour de France. Even on the DVR, skipping the commercials, I still have several hours of watching the best riders in the world move their feet in tiny circles. And it starts at &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On teeve nights it&#39;s dinner at &#8230; 9:15.<\/p>\n<p>The glamorous life. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1306763882845872129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Tour is usually in July. That it&#8217;s happening at all this year is pretty incredible. And the race has been entertaining, with potential for a great finish. But right about here, as we&#8217;re beginning Stage 18, you feel like you&#8217;re in the race, too. They&#8217;re doing the riding, but this is an endurance event for everyone. And, when it runs in the summer, I at least have a regular work schedule. But the split days of the fall &#8230; it&#8217;s an endurance event all its own.<\/p>\n<p>Life, as they say, is tough.<\/p>\n<p>Not really, but I could do for some more sleep. They ride onto the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>So trying to get everything in leaves me feeling a little ragged just now, but, most importantly, it&#8217;s worth it to see the TV folks do their thing:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Willtrubs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Willtrubs<\/a> hit the tease for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUSTVsports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iustvsports<\/a> I turned to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelmoskaluk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@michaelmoskaluk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Justin__Berger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Justin__Berger<\/a> and said, &quot;Somewhere in Iowa, when the beat drops, he won&#39;t know why, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tilka_KWQC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tilka_KWQC<\/a> is giving a big fist pump.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qMGZzHVwNH\">pic.twitter.com\/qMGZzHVwNH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1306729435530493958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some of the Tuesday programming:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0YWE7TZKST0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re just a week in, finding their sea legs, and things are already moving efficiently.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sxncmu-YYYM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a great year in the studio. <\/p>\n<p>More on <a TARGET=\"Blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kennysmith\">Twitter<\/a>, check me out on <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kennydsmith\/\">Instagram<\/a> and more <a TARGET=\"Blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/on-topic-with-iu\">On Topic with IU<\/a> podcasts as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, this is after work, before dinner and before a mountain stage of the Tour de France. Even on the DVR, skipping the commercials, I still have several hours of watching the best riders in the world move their feet in tiny circles. And it starts at &#8230; On teeve nights it&#39;s dinner at &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,15,31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","category-thursday","category-twitter","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892530","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=573892530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892531,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892530\/revisions\/573892531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}