{"id":573894342,"date":"2022-05-17T21:31:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T01:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573894342"},"modified":"2022-05-18T15:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T19:43:44","slug":"lets-go-back-in-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2022\/05\/17\/lets-go-back-in-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s go back in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ten years ago<\/strong> I took this photograph, and published it on my Tumblr site. (Remember those?) This is the agapanthus, the African lily. From the Greek agape (love) + anthos (flower).<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may22\/graphic06.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The plant is believed to have a hemolytic poison and can cause ulceration of the mouth. It does have other medicinal properties, however. There are about 10 species in the genus. <\/p>\n<p>(Haven&#8217;t put anything on that Tumblr since November 2014. I wonder why? Probably just rightly remembered I should put everything here.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nine years ago<\/strong> I was at a baseball game, and the good guys won. We found our friend watching from a nearby parking deck.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may22\/graphic07.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(Happy times!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eight years ago<\/strong> we ran a triathlon in the morning, and watched a baseball game in the afternoon. (Good guys lost.) And I got Aubie to take a selfie on my camera.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may22\/graphic08.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(Happy times!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seven years ago<\/strong> we ran a 10K. I did it in brand new shoes.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may22\/graphic09.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This was a fundraiser in London, and on part of the route we ran around Wembley Stadium. The guy that won the race was an Egyptian Olympian. He lapped us. It was amazing to watch him run. He could not stick around to get his medal, they said, because he <em>ran<\/em> off to run another race. Long distance runners, man. <\/p>\n<p>But look at this awesome bling! <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may22\/graphic10.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(The next day we were in Paris. It was a whirlwind.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Six years ago<\/strong>, plus one day &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No. My granddaddy, knife and salt shaker in his pocket, taught me how to eat it: warm and fresh out of his garden. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g68wf9MMBM\">https:\/\/t.co\/g68wf9MMBM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith \ud83c\udf0c\ud83d\udc00 (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/732404181395460096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been able to eat watermelon without thinking about that. And I can&#8217;t eat watermelon without being a bit sad. Had some this morning, in fact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Five years ago<\/strong>, boy, I was right about this one.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is a problem of precedent-setting historical accumulation, you see &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dIccvY9XNJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/dIccvY9XNJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith \ud83c\udf0c\ud83d\udc00 (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/864905193946853376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four years ago<\/strong>, we were in Tuscany, specifically, Siena, and just one of the beautiful things we visited that day was the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siena_Cathedral\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Duomo di Siena<\/a>. In the 12th century the earliest version of this building starting hosting services, but there&#8217;d been a church on this spot for centuries by then. The oldest bell in the church was cast in 1149! These beautiful facades started appearing in the 1200s.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may22\/graphic11.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That was a grand trip. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BxlCl7HBs_M\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A post shared by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two years ago<\/strong> I apparently sat around and thought of little more than Covid. Remember the pandemic?<\/p>\n<p><strong>And last year<\/strong> at this time I was recovering from my first long drive in a year. We&#8217;d just come back from visiting my vaccinated family members. It had been my first drive out of the county in more than a year. It took a day or two to recover. <\/p>\n<p>I did have a reason to re-use this gif, however.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a gif from November 2019, and it is one of my favorite spontaneous gifs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalCoff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CalCoff<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TilkaMichael?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TilkaMichael<\/a> are just so perfect in it. <\/p>\n<p>(With special appearance by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APStylebook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@APStylebook<\/a>.) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hi2z77eFdK\">pic.twitter.com\/hi2z77eFdK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith \ud83c\udf0c\ud83d\udc00 (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1394422419717337089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The guy on the left is a sports director at a television station in Illinois now. The guy on the right is a 2L at a Washington D.C. law school. (We&#8217;re all going to work for one of them one day, I&#8217;m sure.)<\/p>\n<p>So a bit of everything on this day in the last decade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago I took this photograph, and published it on my Tumblr site. (Remember those?) This is the agapanthus, the African lily. From the Greek agape (love) + anthos (flower). The plant is believed to have a hemolytic poison and can cause ulceration of the mouth. It does have other medicinal properties, however. 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