{"id":573898957,"date":"2026-05-06T20:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898957"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:47:02","slug":"choosing-is-a-matter-of-impulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/05\/06\/choosing-is-a-matter-of-impulse\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing is a matter of impulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new road while I was racing the last little bit of sunlight this evening. It was somewhere just after I pedaled my way past this field. I turned right on a road I&#8217;ve been on maybe three times, but it didn&#8217;t look familiar. Knowing it was already after 7 p.m., it didn&#8217;t seem like the right time to get lost. I&#8217;d left my headlight on the kitchen counter after all. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may26\/may06.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So I turned around, got back to where the two roads diverged, and instead of going right, which was correct, I went left, which was new to me. Also, it was a bit shorter, which probably worked out well. This is how much light I had two miles from home.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may26\/may07.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s fine, but there&#8217;s a little you have to go down, and immediately come back up the side, all of which is under a thick canopy. And the road is usually dodgy with gravel and grit. This you don&#8217;t want to ride in almost dark. It may as well be a guess. Today it was that guess, I guess, that narrowly avoided longer route, but for that turnaround, that kept me out of the dark. <\/p>\n<p>The road less traveled was less interesting than the one I wanted, but it got me where I needed to go, and a few minutes and miles faster. <\/p>\n<p>So that worked out.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerwildatlanticway.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still living in the happy memories of our wonderful Irish vacation. So, I&#8217;m sharing extra videos that we didn&#8217;t get to at the time. It was a great vacation. I have a lot of footage. This will go on for some time. Enjoy it with me, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xaav1co\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This tidy, secluded, little spot is <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/19\/malainn-bhig\/\">Malainn Bhig<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new road while I was racing the last little bit of sunlight this evening. It was somewhere just after I pedaled my way past this field. I turned right on a road I&#8217;ve been on maybe three times, but it didn&#8217;t look familiar. Knowing it was already after 7 p.m., it didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,6,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-memories","category-photo","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898957","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=573898957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898958,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898957\/revisions\/573898958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}