{"id":1552,"date":"2014-08-29T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T04:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2014-08-29T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T04:34:52","slug":"ready-steady-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/ready-steady-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready, steady, go."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late at night with the curtains open in my bedroom I can\u00a0see the\u00a0tower antenna lights\u00a0blinking\u00a0off and on at\u00a0the top of Council Crest. Line of sight is about \u00a08 miles.\u00a0The weather has cooled this week and at the end of August I start to miss the rain. The grass is brown and the leaves on the tomato plants in the garden curl from the heat.<\/p>\n<p>I ran all the railroad tie steps today on the steep climb after crossing 26 from the Zoo as I made my way to the tower. It felt\u00a0effortless as I fixed my gaze far ahead on the trail; it\u00a0was less\u00a0steep today. Time changes\u00a0perspective. It smooths the troughs and flattens the peaks. Sometimes gravity relaxes its grip. Like today.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cMOAXm94VWo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late at night with the curtains open in my bedroom I can\u00a0see the\u00a0tower antenna lights\u00a0blinking\u00a0off and on at\u00a0the top of Council Crest. Line of sight is about \u00a08 miles.\u00a0The weather has cooled this week and at the end of August I start to miss the rain. The grass is brown and the leaves on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}