{"id":573897501,"date":"2024-10-14T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897501"},"modified":"2024-10-18T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T06:04:43","slug":"wasnt-that-a-beautiful-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/10\/14\/wasnt-that-a-beautiful-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasn&#8217;t that a beautiful weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We only had the one night of aurora. That was Thursday. Friday night, the sky looked like it always does. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct55.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t a knock on the night sky, but everyone would have enjoyed another light show. <\/p>\n<p>The rest of these are just photos, and a video, from weekend bike rides, but don&#8217;t think of this as yet another bike riding post &#8230; well, I suppose you have to for this video. It was a road worth riding down slowly.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x97k64g\"\n    style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"\n    allowfullscreen\n    title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"\n    allow=\"web-share\"><br \/>\n  <\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Think of it, instead, as a beautiful Saturday afternoon I got to enjoy. Watching you watering your sod &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct56.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Or letting a field sit for the weekend &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct57.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Or cutting your hay for winter &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct58.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Or imagine you sitting inside, wondering if you&#8217;d brought all of your equipment in, or left something out somewhere &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct59.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I asked my lovely bride if she&#8217;d like to go for a ride, just something easy to get outside for a while to enjoy another beautiful autumn day. She considered it, and agreed to an easy ride. I knew I was in trouble when I saw the steely look in her pretty eyes when she settled onto her aerobars.<\/p>\n<p>It took a Strava segment PR and a second-best time on another near the end of the ride to stay in front of her.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct60.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, it was her THIRD workout of the day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We only had the one night of aurora. That was Thursday. Friday night, the sky looked like it always does. Which isn&#8217;t a knock on the night sky, but everyone would have enjoyed another light show. The rest of these are just photos, and a video, from weekend bike rides, but don&#8217;t think of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,40,3,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-cycling","category-monday","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897501","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=573897501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897502,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897501\/revisions\/573897502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}