{"id":573892596,"date":"2020-10-07T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892596"},"modified":"2020-10-09T21:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T01:24:20","slug":"and-just-like-that-the-last-color-of-the-year-fills-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/10\/07\/and-just-like-that-the-last-color-of-the-year-fills-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"And just like that, the last color of the year fills the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The least nature can do before turning to monochromatic grays and whites is to give us this. And you have to be perfectly fair here: this turn of color is impressive.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct20\/oct43.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Saw that tree on the walk to the car after work. It was a quiet day on campus, a lot of them are just now, and it&#8217;s a shame that we aren&#8217;t able to have large outdoor activities because the backdrop would be &#8230; something:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct20\/oct44.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Went for the Wednesday afternoon bike ride, and fell behind pretty quickly. Which gave me an empty road in front of me to shoot from the hip:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct20\/oct45.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not to long after this I had another flat. I was taking a turn and the back of the bike slid out from underneath me, which was the first sign. It was low. So I pumped it with my hand pump enough to get over the next hill, by which time the tube was flat again. I pumped it once more and when I got back on the tube said, and I quote, &#8220;You&#8217;re kidding, right?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>We were moving on toward dusk by then. And while I wasn&#8217;t far from the house, taking the time to put in another tube and limping home would have meant darkness, so I texted The Yankee to come pick me up, which she kindly did.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m throwing out that tire. I bought some more tonight, I&#8217;ll put an old one the back wheel until they arrive. Begging the question: what was wrong with that old tire, to keep it from being on my bike?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct20\/oct46.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I took the offending Gatorskin &#8212; which has served me for a good long while, but has been a part of flat after flat after flat this year &#8212; out with the garbage tonight. I told it that no longer sparked joy, it was the weakest link. And I have a big stack of ruined inner tubes, and another truncated ride, to prove it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The least nature can do before turning to monochromatic grays and whites is to give us this. And you have to be perfectly fair here: this turn of color is impressive. Saw that tree on the walk to the car after work. It was a quiet day on campus, a lot of them are just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-photo","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892596","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=573892596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892597,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892596\/revisions\/573892597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}