{"id":6728,"date":"2009-03-24T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:55:50","slug":"weve-got-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/03\/24\/weve-got-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve got bikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4304,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/3382621821&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/3382621821&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4305,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/3382624843&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/3382624843&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4306,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/product\\\/B000KZ4MUY?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000KZ4MUY&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/product\\\/B000KZ4MUY?ie=UTF8&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4307,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/product\\\/B001QU3YL0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001QU3YL0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/product\\\/B001QU3YL0?ie=UTF8&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Getting bikes has been one of the things on our &#8220;we&#8217;d really like to do that someday&#8221; list for a long time, and sometime over the past few months, we&#8217;d decided that that was going to be my birthday present this year: bikes for me and Prairie. As spring has been getting closer, we&#8217;ve been getting more excited about the plan, and so this morning, as a combination of early birthday present and consolation after getting word that I didn&#8217;t get a job I&#8217;d interviewed for last week, we went up to Target and got ourselves new toys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/3382621821\/\" title=\"Boy on a Bike by djwudi, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3633\/3382621821_454c0e5dbc_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Boy on a Bike\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/3382624843\/\" title=\"Girl on a Bike by djwudi, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3069\/3382624843_c9299085c7_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Girl on a Bike\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prairie, being a girl who likes pink, got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000KZ4MUY?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000KZ4MUY\" title=\"Amazon: Schwinn Roxie Cruiser\">Schwinn Roxie Cruiser<\/a>, and as I&#8217;m not a girl and not overly fond of pink, I got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QU3YL0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001QU3YL0\" title=\"Amazon: Schwinn Comfort Gridlock\">Schwinn Comfort Gridlock<\/a>. Yup, both the old standard Schwinn! Obviously, neither of us are <em>cyclists<\/em> (with the capital &#8220;C&#8221; and lots of spandex), so we got exactly what we wanted: a couple of decent, sturdy cruise-along-the-Green-River-Trail bikes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, along with the bikes were helmets, bike pumps, patch kits, and a silly little pink-with-flowers horn for Prairie&#8217;s bike, plus a rear carry rack for the car so we could get them home. Not a bad haul, overall.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as we got home, we took them out for a short ride along the trail. While neither of us has had a bike in years (myself around ten or so, since well before I left Anchorage for Seattle; Prairie&#8217;s closer to at least a good fifteen years since she&#8217;s had one), it&#8217;s apparently quite true that you don&#8217;t forget how to ride, as both of us were off and riding without a problem. There&#8217;s a few minor tweaks to make to ensure that both bikes are adjusted properly for us, but that won&#8217;t take much. We&#8217;re really looking forward to biking around here over the summer (and if I&#8217;m lucky enough to find a job relatively close to our apartment, that could make commuting that much easier).<\/p>\n<p>New toys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As spring has been getting closer, we&#8217;ve been getting more excited about the plan, and so this morning, as a combination of early birthday present and consolation after getting word that I didn&#8217;t get a job I&#8217;d interviewed for last week, we went up to Target and got ourselves new toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13,193],"class_list":["post-6728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life","tag-prairie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}