{"id":871,"date":"2008-05-14T22:49:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T02:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2008\/05\/14\/n-e-x-t\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T03:00:12","slug":"n-e-x-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/871","title":{"rendered":"Critical impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember writing in my journal about the first time I attended a Chamber of Commerce banquet in Danville, and finding it a powerfully positive experience, as I acclimated to a new community. Cliff and Jeanne were there, and the keynote speaker was a newspaper columnist from Louisville. It seemed as though everybody present knew him, except for me. Another thing I remember is how perceptive and funny he was. Here was a nice guy who had grown up along the Hanging Fork, who had gone to the big city, and who had made it big. I now believe that the perspective he shared that evening influenced how I would come to perceive the people of my newly adopted state. If I was wondering, \u201cJust who are these Kentuckians?\u201d\u2014and surely I must have been\u2014I could have done a lot worse than listen to the keen observations of Mr. Byron Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>He called me yesterday for a phone interview, as he prepared to write a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080514\/COLUMNISTS04\/805140868\/1008\/NEWS01\">bike-to-work piece for his column<\/a> in the <em>Courier-Journal.<\/em> On the eve of my annual conclave with the Kentucky Bicycle and Bikeway Commission, it\u2019s interesting to think that my desire to make a mark on the quality of life in this Commonwealth might in no small way trace back to that night nearly twenty years ago when Byron came to town. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember writing in my journal about the first time I attended a Chamber of Commerce banquet in Danville, and finding it a powerfully positive experience, as I acclimated to a new community. Cliff and Jeanne were there, and the keynote speaker was a newspaper columnist from Louisville. It seemed as though everybody present knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,17,18,61,16,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}