{"id":573894777,"date":"2022-09-19T21:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T01:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573894777"},"modified":"2022-09-21T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:30:46","slug":"rocket-ship-emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2022\/09\/19\/rocket-ship-emoji\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket ship emoji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hill of truth. It isn&#8217;t much of a hill, and what little there is is basically behind the photographer at this point, but for some reason getting over and around that curve tell you a lot about a ride.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept22\/sept33.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Of course it was two-thirds of the way through my Saturday morning ride. All of its truths had been laid bare already. It was a slow start, as rides often are, and the burst off the first little roller wasn&#8217;t as sharp or as long as it usually is. The sprint I&#8217;ve been tinkering with, one long straight road that takes you from one neighbor to another, I didn&#8217;t even try. And then she ran off and left me.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept22\/sept34.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I only saw her again after one of the turnaround points. And that is what happens when you have no legs on a 30-mile ride. You get dropped. <\/p>\n<p>I can enjoy it. This was the biggest mileage week for me in the last few months. Not a lot, but plenty for the moment. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I can find more miles this week, or the week after. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerleeks.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do the weekly check-in with the kitties. They&#8217;re both doing great, thanks for asking. Phoebe spent a bit of time last night hanging out in the entertainment center for some reason.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept22\/sept35.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Poseidon was more than happy to take a nap in the fuzzy blanket. When they cover their eyes like this I assume they are embarrassed about something going on around them. The only question is, by whom?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept22\/sept36.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Probably his sister.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerbooks.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Finished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomascahill.com\/books\/how-the-irish-saved-civilization-tr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Thomas Cahill book<\/a>, this evening. The barbarians invaded Rome. It all slipped away, slowly, then suddenly. Eventually literacy gained a foothold in Ireland. And then came Patrick, Columcille, and Colombanus. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a light popular reading. So there&#8217;s not a lot of depth, but if you were looking for an entry-point into an important period of Irish history, this is a reasonable start. The book ends with this downer. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept22\/graphic02.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept22\/graphic03.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There are almost 8 billion of us now, last time I counted, so that at least gives us plenty of permutations and possibilities. And, if that somehow doesn&#8217;t work, there are always emojis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hill of truth. It isn&#8217;t much of a hill, and what little there is is basically behind the photographer at this point, but for some reason getting over and around that curve tell you a lot about a ride. Of course it was two-thirds of the way through my Saturday morning ride. All of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573894777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894777","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=573894777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573894779,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894777\/revisions\/573894779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573894777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573894777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573894777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}