{"id":573898460,"date":"2025-11-10T20:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898460"},"modified":"2025-11-11T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:39:19","slug":"a-rare-feeling-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/11\/10\/a-rare-feeling-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare feeling, indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of this writing, I am dangerously close to being caught up. This is a sentence I haven&#8217;t been able to say since late September or early October. Yesterday and today I did a bit of class prep. Today I graded. This evening I built slide decks for tomorrow. I even got one of my inboxes under control. <\/p>\n<p>I dislike the weight of being behind. I thought of putting about 400 words into that, but everyone knows the feeling, and everyone registers it differently. Besides, that&#8217;d just slow me down. What I&#8217;ll do is enjoy this feeling for a day, maybe 36 hours. And then I&#8217;ll be behind again.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I have a document to write about a future class, start building that class, this, and some things to read for tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve been on a roll, at least some of that gets done tonight.  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at the last few days in photographs, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>What is it to go up a road? Or are you going down a road? And what distinguishes between the two? For instance, was I going up or down this road on Saturday?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov25\/nov28.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I had timed up my ride to get out and about and back in time for football. From that spot I was about 13 or 14 miles from home. And I almost made it back for kickoff. Didn&#8217;t miss much, but there&#8217;s something to be said for knowing how slow you are, so you can set up and pace your whole day around a ride. Also, it was beautiful. Just gorgeous. Shorts and short sleeves and it will be much too long before I get another ride like that. <\/p>\n<p>This is a park I ride by pretty regularly. There are a couple of baseball and softball fields back there, a few soccer fields, too. I&#8217;ve never seen it this empty, and on what might be the last perfect fall Saturday of the season. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov25\/nov29.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Great job, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I had a great shadow selfie. I must have been headed east at the time. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov25\/nov30.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here I am riding south, with the sun over my right shoulder. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov25\/nov31.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes these roadside trees look like sculptures. Also, I didn&#8217;t notice it at the time, but there&#8217;s a bird flying through the background. Sometimes art is serendipitous. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov25\/nov32.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At all times, my photos are pretending to be artistic. <\/p>\n<p>I went for a run. OK, it was a short run. It was a nice foggy midnight run. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov25\/nov33.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was 5:50 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>And this evening, we had a lovely sunset. I enjoyed it for about 20 seconds. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov25\/nov34.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because, of course, there are things to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of this writing, I am dangerously close to being caught up. This is a sentence I haven&#8217;t been able to say since late September or early October. Yesterday and today I did a bit of class prep. Today I graded. This evening I built slide decks for tomorrow. I even got one of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898460","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=573898460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898463,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898460\/revisions\/573898463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}