{"id":573893089,"date":"2021-03-17T21:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T01:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893089"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:28:18","slug":"tonight-we-are-mellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/03\/17\/tonight-we-are-mellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight we are Mellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I had the good fortune to join a ride with the many Major Taylor bicycling clubs across the country. So I wore my Major Taylor kit. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar21\/mar19.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He won the world championship in 1899, set almost three-dozen world records in his career and had to deal with all sorts of racism and violence. He didn&#8217;t hang on to it, though, and explained why and how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Worlds-Fastest-Man-Extraordinary-Americas\/dp\/1501192590\/ref=asc_df_1501192590\/?tag=hyprod-20&#038;linkCode=df0&#038;hvadid=343242926153&#038;hvpos=&#038;hvnetw=g&#038;hvrand=4939909214400336285&#038;hvpone=&#038;hvptwo=&#038;hvqmt=&#038;hvdev=c&#038;hvdvcmdl=&#038;hvlocint=&#038;hvlocphy=1017003&#038;hvtargid=pla-749130667151&#038;psc=1&#038;tag=&#038;ref=&#038;adgrpid=67797265423&#038;hvpone=&#038;hvptwo=&#038;hvadid=343242926153&#038;hvpos=&#038;hvnetw=g&#038;hvrand=4939909214400336285&#038;hvqmt=&#038;hvdev=c&#038;hvdvcmdl=&#038;hvlocint=&#038;hvlocphy=1017003&#038;hvtargid=pla-749130667151\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in his autobiography<\/a>, which is a fine sports read.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m on this group ride on Zwift, and I should point out this was in no way a race. Because I don&#8217;t race. Because I am not fast. But, somehow, despite that, I found myself off the front for about 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar21\/graphic05.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To not see anyone in front of you for that long is pretty wild. And then the really fast guys went by. It was a sight to behold.<\/p>\n<p>But, for a while, my nose was in the wind and I was riding almost all alone. I celebrated with pizza.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar21\/mar20.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Nah. I was going to enjoy that pizza anyway. The Yankee picked up Mellow Mushroom on an errand-trip to Indianapolis and so we are eating right tonight, and tomorrow! Mellow Mushroom really needs a store here. It&#8217;s a college town with woefully inferior pizza selections. Mellow would be a huge hit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I had the good fortune to join a ride with the many Major Taylor bicycling clubs across the country. So I wore my Major Taylor kit. He won the world championship in 1899, set almost three-dozen world records in his career and had to deal with all sorts of racism and violence. He didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573893089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-food","category-photo","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893089","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=573893089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573893090,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893089\/revisions\/573893090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573893089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573893089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573893089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}