{"id":1095,"date":"2010-03-21T13:43:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T17:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2010\/03\/21\/advancing-alone\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:27:12","slug":"advancing-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1095","title":{"rendered":"Advancing alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March Exercise V &#8212;day twenty-one&#8212;<\/span> After Dana fixed Marty and me a delicious pancake breakfast, I set out on Hakkoch for my first bike workout of the year. Near the edge of town I stopped at Jay and Glenda\u2019s for a surprise inspection before heading out to Chrisman Lane, one of my favorite riding roads. I was thinking about the recent death of Winston and that Walie was the only Yorkie remaining in the Clan. She\u2019ll turn twelve on April Fool\u2019s Day. I rode about 15.5 miles and was ready to arrive home. I\u2019ve got some serious work to do if I hope to complete a 100-miler in May. Joan and Mombo stopped by as part of their ongoing mattress research. I heard Joan tell Walie she knew what it felt like to be a widow.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s scent bite&#8212;<\/span> The glorious agricultural stench of a spreader\u2019s output <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;s-n-i-f-f&#8212;<\/span> with pastoral recollections of Studebakers, Browns, and Silknetters all rolled into one.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Previously on M-Ex&#8212;<\/span> This is about as heavily into the experiment as one can get. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/03\/21\/its-not-failure-unless-i-quit\/\"><em>(3\/21\/06)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> Pedal to the metal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/lastyorkie.jpg' alt='the last yorkie' title='the last yorkie'\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Exercise V &#8212;day twenty-one&#8212; After Dana fixed Marty and me a delicious pancake breakfast, I set out on Hakkoch for my first bike workout of the year. Near the edge of town I stopped at Jay and Glenda\u2019s for a surprise inspection before heading out to Chrisman Lane, one of my favorite riding roads. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,68,21,18,38,64,36,28,37,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}