{"id":8022,"date":"2011-07-03T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T01:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2011-07-03T20:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T01:15:59","slug":"i-want-to-ride-my-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/i-want-to-ride-my-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to ride my bicycle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"bicycle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/bicycle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wow, summer&#8217;s here with gusto&#8230; liberated the old bicycle from the shed this week, and had a pleasant drive along the lake (with water levels several feet higher than normal) with my Sweetie&#8230; looking forward to more times in the saddle in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I now ride a somewhat clunky 1980s-vintage 18-speed mountain bike, but I did once mount an authentic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Velocipede\" target=\"_blank\">velocipede<\/a> (center bottom in image above, with the huge front wheel) that belonged to a neighbour of ours when we lived on Florastrasse in Reinach, Switzerland, back in the 1960s\u2026 and I have owned sleeker road-bikes back in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba Wow, summer&#8217;s here with gusto&#8230; liberated the old bicycle from the shed this week, and had a pleasant drive along the lake (with water levels several feet higher than normal) with my Sweetie&#8230; looking forward to more times in the saddle in the months ahead. I now ride a somewhat clunky 1980s-vintage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,11,15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}