{"id":82706,"date":"2013-08-23T20:55:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T03:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=82706"},"modified":"2013-08-23T20:55:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T03:55:15","slug":"my-first-bike-ride-across-manhattan-nearly-made-me-ruin-my-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=82706","title":{"rendered":"My First Bike Ride Across Manhattan Nearly Made Me Ruin My Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"61fae3f1f28fe20200624bf7bd763ae1\">&#8220;There are bike lanes all over New York,&#8221; they said. &#8220;It&#8217;s cheaper than driving and nicer than the subway,&#8221; they said. What they didn&#8217;t say is that it&#8217;s pants-shittingly terrifying. They should.P<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"07e4f69707bf754f10ba8b0489cb42b6\">I&#8217;d finally completed a &#8220;hipster-hotrod&#8221; conversion on an old Schwinn I&#8217;d found at a yard sale: frame stripped of paint and clear-coated, handlebars flipped upside-down, single-speed rear hub, and an enormous rear tire from a horse cart fitted for dragster-esque swagger\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/my-first-bike-ride-across-manhattan-nearly-made-me-ruin-1189072351\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" data-textannotation-id=\"07e4f69707bf754f10ba8b0489cb42b6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are bike lanes all over New York,&#8221; they said. &#8220;It&#8217;s cheaper than driving and nicer than the subway,&#8221; they said. What they didn&#8217;t say is that it&#8217;s pants-shittingly terrifying. They should.P I&#8217;d finally completed a &#8220;hipster-hotrod&#8221; conversion on an old Schwinn I&#8217;d found at a yard sale: frame stripped of paint and clear-coated, handlebars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82706","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=82706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82708,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82706\/revisions\/82708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}