{"id":573893370,"date":"2021-07-14T21:18:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T01:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893370"},"modified":"2021-07-22T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T21:04:12","slug":"life-in-slower-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/07\/14\/life-in-slower-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in slower motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We set out for a bike ride this evening. Nothing serious, just a quick hour through an hour&#8217;s worth of neighborhoods. About seven of them, I&#8217;d say. Then again, not every stretch of road runs through a tightly grouped neighborhood. I bet if you went door-to-door along today&#8217;s route not everyone would think they lived in a neighborhood. They&#8217;d wonder why a person in a helmet and funny clothes was knocking on their door. Asking about their neighbors. And sweating all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had to swap inner tubes in a few front yards. You get self conscious of that quite quickly. It&#8217;s probably the funny clothes. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a nice little ride. I was slow, because that is my lot lately. The only solution to that is more riding. The Yankee was faster. There&#8217;s a turnaround on the route, and she made it there first, slowed, turned and was coming back the other direction.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yfMH-QqeZ2I\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think she was going especially fast, or trying overly hard, she just was fast. Maybe it&#8217;s the bike or the gearing, but probably it&#8217;s just she&#8217;s good at this. Also I&#8217;m not riding especially comfortably just now. If I thought about it too much I&#8217;d convince myself someone has been tinkering with my bike setup. Which always feels precarious, anyway. I&#8217;m like the princess and the pea over here. Change the tires, use different bottles, I can feel it.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re going this slow you have plenty of time to notice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We set out for a bike ride this evening. Nothing serious, just a quick hour through an hour&#8217;s worth of neighborhoods. About seven of them, I&#8217;d say. Then again, not every stretch of road runs through a tightly grouped neighborhood. I bet if you went door-to-door along today&#8217;s route not everyone would think they lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573893370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893370","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=573893370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573893371,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893370\/revisions\/573893371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573893370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573893370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573893370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}