{"id":470,"date":"2011-03-19T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:57:53","slug":"a-viscious-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"A Viscious Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my wife&#8217;s cousin Robbie and his wife Karen rode to Tallahassee from their home in North Carolina.  They did this on his shiny Harley Davidson motorcycle.  My wife was quick to ask a ride and here she is saddled up and ready to go.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2714-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2714\" title=\"DSCN2714\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2714-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2714-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2714.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe weather was gorgeous so burgers were the order of the day on our spacious deck.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2724-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2724\" title=\"DSCN2724\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2724-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2724-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2724.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of you know our home is situated on 5.5 acres and sits about 300 feet back from the street.  Very quiet and serene, our plot is a common fishing ground for Grand Egrets like those shown here.<br \/>\nThere is a rain water containment passage through the property and a nice bridge that allows us to cross.  This picture was taken in the early morning mist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my wife&#8217;s cousin Robbie and his wife Karen rode to Tallahassee from their home in North Carolina. They did this on his shiny Harley Davidson motorcycle. My wife was quick to ask a ride and here she is saddled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}