{"id":130,"date":"2008-06-22T06:12:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2008-06-23T01:05:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T08:05:55","slug":"a-would-do-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/a-would-do-again\/","title":{"rendered":"A+++ Would do again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was, in a word, awesome.\u00a0 In a few more words it was crowded, voyeuristic, and drunktacular&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fremont Summer Solstice festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">naked bodies + body paint + insane creativity + bikes = awesome parade<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is hard to know how else to describe it but that.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/kmwoley\/20080621FremontSolstice8KOfDrunkenFun?authkey=qZJo9Y0_aUc\" target=\"_blank\">Be warned, the pictures are mildly graphic and are thus private.<\/a> This is, yet again, another example of why Seattle is a great place to live.\u00a0 People here are just so free and relaxed, even the cops are down. The parade to welcome the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solstice\" target=\"_blank\">summer solstice<\/a> has been going on for years, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solstice_Cyclists\" target=\"_blank\">naked bikers just have started to become an &#8220;unofficial part&#8221; of the festivities.<\/a>\u00a0 Needless to say, a great way to start the day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 Miles of Drunken (R|F)un:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sure, I&#8217;m not a runner.\u00a0 But if you tell me that you&#8217;re going on on a 5 mile run and stopping at 7 bars along the way, <em>I&#8217;m so there!<\/em>\u00a0 After the parade, I headed out to join the Seattle Anti-Freeze Runners group on the run mapped below.\u00a0 Holy crap was that a great time!\u00a0 Best. Idea. Ever!\u00a0 Much thanks to Firewallender for forwarding me the invite to this lil gem, and for the SAF guys for putting it together.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/kmwoley\/20080621FremontSolstice8KOfDrunkenFun?authkey=qZJo9Y0_aUc\" target=\"_blank\">Pics of our drunken progression can be found in this unlisted album<\/a> as well as on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>And then there was recovery&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, not really.\u00a0 I went on a <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/kmwoley\/20080622SnoqualmieRiverMiddleFork\" target=\"_blank\">hike with Andy today<\/a>, and then spent the evening at my first Lindy Hop lesson of the summer.\u00a0 I&#8217;m super excited about picking up Lindy again.\u00a0 After which, of course, we had to stick around and practice for a few hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You would expect that I would be tired, but not so much.\u00a0 All in all, this was a rock-star weekend. A+++.\u00a0 Would do it all again.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- MMF PARTNER TOOL --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was, in a word, awesome.\u00a0 In a few more words it was crowded, voyeuristic, and drunktacular&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[90,91,93,89,88,92],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-seattle","tag-crazy","tag-drunk","tag-fremont","tag-running","tag-seattle-anti-freeze","tag-solstice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}