{"id":142,"date":"2011-03-05T18:42:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T02:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=142"},"modified":"2011-03-05T19:25:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T03:25:38","slug":"unless-youre-the-lead-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/142","title":{"rendered":"Unless you&#8217;re the lead dog &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; the view never changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Staring up the butt of your buddy for nine days straight, or more, can&#8217;t be much fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><small>Iditarod 39 Mock Start &#8211; Anchorage<\/small><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Iditarod 39 Start - Anchorage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/March\/iditarod39Start.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which is not to say there is no virtue in following a leader. Barring outright malevolence or insanity some leaders are actually worthwhile, and why put yourself in their role and take the associated risks when following close behind in a supportive role gets you to the same goal, albeit not first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The uprights took in the celebration and captured a video at the (mock) start this morning in downtown Anchorage. By the way, the name of the race is pronounced I-<em>Dit<\/em>-A-Rod, not I-<em>Did<\/em>-A-Rod, which is what Mom says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All but a few of the sixty two teams had already left by the time they arrived. One wonders what occupies these dogs thoughts for 1049 miles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-RkDAQY7ivM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-RkDAQY7ivM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong><small>15 seconds till takeoff<\/small><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Fifteen seconds and counting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/March\/iditarod39Pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><small>Salmon Ice Sculpture<\/small><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Ice Sculpture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/March\/iceSculpture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the view never changes. Staring up the butt of your buddy for nine days straight, or more, can&#8217;t be much fun. Iditarod 39 Mock Start &#8211; Anchorage Which is not to say there is no virtue in following a leader. Barring outright malevolence or insanity some leaders are actually worthwhile, and why put yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}