{"id":18214,"date":"2009-08-11T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18214"},"modified":"2011-03-20T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:46:31","slug":"cycling-road-mt-bike-bmx-urban-cybertale-facebook-found-the-bicycle-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18214","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road Mt. Bike BMX &#8211; Urban cybertale: Facebook found the bicycle thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NEW YORK \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Kids who live in the city learn their streetsmarts early. Not just, &#8220;Don&#8217;t talk to strangers,&#8221; but also, &#8220;Keep your hand on your wallet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So when my 11-year-old wanted to ride his bike to the playground, I handed him a bike lock. My parting words were: &#8220;Use the lock. If that bike gets stolen, I&#8217;m not buying a new one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An hour later, the bike was gone, swiped by a bigger kid who said, &#8220;Hey, can I see your bike for a minute?&#8221; and rode away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;You fell for that?&#8221; I said to my son. &#8220;You&#8217;ll be riding your scooter from now on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But he wasn&#8217;t upset. He was sure we&#8217;d get the bike back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Incredibly, we did.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5gTt5f_7xGQtyhiNm_jwUVORQIhTg\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Kids who live in the city learn their streetsmarts early. Not just, &#8220;Don&#8217;t talk to strangers,&#8221; but also, &#8220;Keep your hand on your wallet.&#8221; So when my 11-year-old wanted to ride his bike to the playground, I handed him a bike lock. My parting words were: &#8220;Use the lock. If that bike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46438,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18214\/revisions\/46438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}