{"id":2706,"date":"2008-06-13T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2008-06-13T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T23:00:02","slug":"lifes-greatest-joys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2706","title":{"rendered":"Life’s Greatest Joys"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order:<\/p>\n

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  1. Rolling down Shep<\/strike>…Oh, sure, seeing my kids born.\u00a0 That’s a given, right?<\/li>\n
  2. Rolling down Shepard Road from Ford Road down the gorge of the Mississippi River all the way to Sibley [*<\/a>], with a howling tailwind behind you all the way, on one of the most beautiful mornings of the year.
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    \nThis’d be the view from Crosby Park, which is\u00a0about 100 feet below<\/em> the bike path.\u00a0 Bear in mind, this is not the country; this is in the middle of Saint Paul, probably a few hundred yards south of the West End residential neighborhood.<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \u00a0 So gorgeous that even I, a notoriously blase Scando-American who was also in mid-bike-ride, involuntarily went “Oh, wooooow” several times.<\/li>\n

  3. Driving your enemies before you and hearing the lamentation of his women.<\/li>\n
  4. Pretty much everything else.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That is all.<\/p>\n

    UPDATE:\u00a0 Natually, no – that is not all.\u00a0 What was this morning a screaming tailwind is, at the end of the work day, a howling headwind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Oh, well.\u00a0 It was <\/em>a great start to the day…<\/p>\n

    [*]\u00a0 Especially east of Montreal, where the path is pretty new.\u00a0 From Fort Road to Alton, it’s like riding down a Bolivian goat trail.\u00a0 Which would be fine on a mountain bike, but if G*d had intended bikes to ride off road, he’d have made them full-tracked.\u00a0 Skinny tires; stay on the road.<\/p>\n

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    In order: Rolling down Shep…Oh, sure, seeing my kids born.\u00a0 That’s a given, right? Rolling down Shepard Road from Ford Road down the gorge of the Mississippi River all the way to Sibley [*], with a howling tailwind behind you all the way, on one of the most beautiful mornings of the year. This’d be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}