{"id":99,"date":"2014-06-09T00:11:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2014-06-09T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T04:13:00","slug":"lets-go-for-a-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/lets-go-for-a-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s go for a ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/davidstrasser-blog-P1250386.jpg?resize=700%2C467\" alt=\"davidstrasser-blog-P1250386\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/davidstrasser-blog-P1250386.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/davidstrasser-blog-P1250386.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems like the warm weather has finally arrived. And after what was as a particularly bitter winter in Toronto, this\u00a0is very good news. This prompted Isabel and I to go a bit bike crazy this week. Which is a problem when you don&#8217;t actually own a bike to ride.<\/p>\n<p>So after doing a fair share\u00a0of research and checking Kijiji and Craigslist compulsively, Isabel and I jumped into bike ownership, buying a pair of Raleigh cruisers from a seller in Scarborough. Mine is a chocolate-brown Raleigh Sprite 27 5-speed, made &#8220;sometime in the 70s&#8221; (according to the seller) in England.<\/p>\n<p>A quick test drive revealed a shockingly smooth ride and, much lighter than I imagined a bike of this vintage. I&#8217;m not going to break any land speed records on it, but it will be fun to go for rides on this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like the warm weather has finally arrived. And after what was as a particularly bitter winter in Toronto, this\u00a0is very good news. This prompted Isabel and I to go a bit bike crazy this week. Which is a problem when you don&#8217;t actually own a bike to ride. So after doing a fair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","tag-bikes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}