{"id":19134,"date":"2017-10-19T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=19134"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:06:02","slug":"popeye-dont-be-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=19134","title":{"rendered":"Popeye, Don&#8217;t Be Right."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides teaching us that spinach is a performance enhancement drug (PED), Popeye also spouted words of wisdom inbetween thrashings and toots of his pipe. This includes the well-sung &#8220;Leave Well Enough Alone&#8230;&#8221; (even if apparently it&#8217;s sung by a parrot&#8230; I could&#8217;ve sworn it was Popeye himself who sung it and punctuated the beats with a TOOT-TOOT&#8230; memory is a funny thing).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/xkcgsc\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, my hosting account for runkevinrun.com is up for renewal&#8230; and with it I&#8217;ve reached the end of the promotional pricing. The cost per month jumps 300% to their regular rates&#8230; hence I&#8217;m looking at an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>I can actually cut the monthly price down to a ridiculously low, low price of $1.04 per month for 36 months&#8230; so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing. But it also requires migrating this website and all its content to a new hosting company&#8230; and I have no idea how well that will work.<\/p>\n<p>I recently got a new laptop and just transferring over files from my old machine to the new one has been a hair-pulling sequence of frustratingly futile foul ups. So, ya know, virtual internet servers should be ever so much easier, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leave well enough alone (squawk, squawk!)<br \/>\nLeave well enough alone (snort, snort!)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got my bottle and bread<br \/>\nAnd a roof over my head.<br \/>\nLeave well enough alone (honk, honk!)<br \/>\nWhy should I want to roam?<br \/>\nI know me stuff<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m smart enough<br \/>\nTo leave well enough alone!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet I&#8217;m not smart enough. I&#8217;m kicking the hornet&#8217;s nest. That always ends well, right?<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Running notation aside &#8212; this morning due to jetlag I was out for my 10-miler shake out at 4 AM.\u00a0 I passed this billboard for &#8220;Stranger Things&#8221; that yesterday was perfectly illuminated.\u00a0 Today it seemed to mock me for overindulging in food stuffs and for my slow pace in the dark of the morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/F6381665-8591-442B-BD6A-7140B735F5F0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/F6381665-8591-442B-BD6A-7140B735F5F0-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/F6381665-8591-442B-BD6A-7140B735F5F0-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/F6381665-8591-442B-BD6A-7140B735F5F0-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/F6381665-8591-442B-BD6A-7140B735F5F0-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/F6381665-8591-442B-BD6A-7140B735F5F0-830x623.jpeg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/F6381665-8591-442B-BD6A-7140B735F5F0-230x173.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/F6381665-8591-442B-BD6A-7140B735F5F0-350x263.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark skies at night?\u00a0 What&#8217;s that mean for sailors, Popeye?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/C60580C3-4C74-4D57-AFC5-0516F9652391.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/C60580C3-4C74-4D57-AFC5-0516F9652391-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/C60580C3-4C74-4D57-AFC5-0516F9652391-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/C60580C3-4C74-4D57-AFC5-0516F9652391-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/C60580C3-4C74-4D57-AFC5-0516F9652391-830x1107.jpeg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/C60580C3-4C74-4D57-AFC5-0516F9652391-230x307.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/C60580C3-4C74-4D57-AFC5-0516F9652391-350x467.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note to self: eat more spinach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides teaching us that spinach is a performance enhancement drug (PED), Popeye also spouted words of wisdom inbetween thrashings and toots of his pipe. This includes the well-sung &#8220;Leave Well Enough Alone&#8230;&#8221; (even if apparently it&#8217;s sung by a parrot&#8230; I could&#8217;ve sworn it was Popeye himself who sung it and punctuated the beats with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}