{"id":573898495,"date":"2025-12-01T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898495"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:32:50","slug":"happy-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/12\/01\/happy-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, at the beginning of the month that&#8217;s the end. We&#8217;re all full up on food and feeling winter. Tired and exhilarated. Probably some other contradictory things, too. <\/p>\n<p>The in-laws came down for a brief visit for Thanksgiving. We had a little prime rib. They stayed the night and we had a pizza Friday before they had to head for home. We had a fine time. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerzwift.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I put my bike on the trainer. I&#8217;m not especially excited for that. I&#8217;d much rather be riding outside. But, ya know, December and all. So I did a few miles to get the thing warmed up. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec25\/graphic01.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long it&#8217;ll be before I can do it again. We&#8217;ll be back in class tomorrow. We&#8217;ll have two weeks left in which to tie the bow on all of the classwork before finals. That&#8217;s two busy weeks. And then finals. And then the holidays. <\/p>\n<p>Tired and exhilarated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, at the beginning of the month that&#8217;s the end. We&#8217;re all full up on food and feeling winter. Tired and exhilarated. Probably some other contradictory things, too. The in-laws came down for a brief visit for Thanksgiving. We had a little prime rib. They stayed the night and we had a pizza [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898495","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=573898495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898497,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898495\/revisions\/573898497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}