{"id":2892,"date":"2010-11-18T23:46:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T04:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2010-11-19T01:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T06:36:39","slug":"dessert-velocipedes-and-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=2892","title":{"rendered":"dessert, velocipedes, and the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! There&#8217;s only a week until Thanksgiving. Thirty-seven days until Christmas. Huh. <\/p>\n<p>But before panic creeps in, let&#8217;s look back at three beautiful things from my week past:<\/p>\n<p>1. The day I forgot my lunch and walked down to Pret for a sandwich, a new bakery was handing out free mini cupcakes. <\/p>\n<p>2. The Tweed Ride was on Sunday. Rudi and I joined roughly 500 other cyclists sporting our fall finest to ride across the city. Costumes were colorful and dapper and elegant and it&#8217;s always so cool to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penny-farthing\">penny-farthings<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pedersen_bicycle\">Pedersen bicycles<\/a> that get brought out for these fancy-dress events.<\/p>\n<p>3. Several weeks ago, Grey Kitten wrote on one of my TBT posts that the moon was beautiful and he wanted to share it with me. Last Friday it arrived in the post in the form of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixheaven.net\/livre\/index.html\">breathtakingly beautiful book<\/a> of photography and French poetry.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your life this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! There&#8217;s only a week until Thanksgiving. Thirty-seven days until Christmas. Huh. But before panic creeps in, let&#8217;s look back at three beautiful things from my week past: 1. 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