{"id":573892847,"date":"2020-12-16T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T02:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892847"},"modified":"2020-12-21T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:05:55","slug":"a-most-heated-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/12\/16\/a-most-heated-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"A most heated debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve come to the end of the unseasonably nice weather. Now we are down to the seasonably, inexorably normal weather. It isn&#8217;t all bad, you get about 15 minutes of sunlight a day, most days. And the tree nearest the back door is still holding on to some of it&#8217;s leaves, for some reason. They&#8217;re still green, even. The tree doesn&#8217;t know what to make of all of this, either. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the outdoor riding is probably done until March or April, cruel a notion as that is. Forty degrees seems to be my threshold, and we won&#8217;t see a lot of that for a while. So, it&#8217;s inside we go, to the bike room! <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec20\/dec22.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It is the room with my bike in it. I will pedal furious circles and go nowhere, slowly.<\/p>\n<p>But the windows will get a nice foggy appearance over the course of an hour or so. <\/p>\n<p>There has erupted a minor controversy around here &#8212; meaning in the house, meaning only myself &#8212; about whether miles on the trainer count as miles. And, finally, after protests and demonstrations and heated debate &#8212; meaning I talked about it out loud and my lovely wife had to hear me utter three sentences on the subject &#8212; it was agreed that those miles do count. <\/p>\n<p>So 20 miles today, and the annual tally can continue. We&#8217;re just setting all sorts of records this year. (Why, yes, there&#8217;s a spreadsheet charting these things.) <\/p>\n<p>And these are the sort of updates you can expect for the next few weeks, I hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve come to the end of the unseasonably nice weather. Now we are down to the seasonably, inexorably normal weather. It isn&#8217;t all bad, you get about 15 minutes of sunlight a day, most days. And the tree nearest the back door is still holding on to some of it&#8217;s leaves, for some reason. They&#8217;re [&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-573892847","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\/573892847","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=573892847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892848,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892847\/revisions\/573892848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}