{"id":804,"date":"2010-01-11T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=804"},"modified":"2010-01-11T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:23:10","slug":"bicycle-v-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/804","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle v. Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went to a DJ show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodlifebar.com\/\">Good Life<\/a>, and since these shows usually last longer than the T runs and I also hate cabs, I decided to bike both ways (about 5.5 miles each way).  It had been flurrying all day, but there wasn&#8217;t enough snow or ice on the roads to make me worried about wiping out.<\/p>\n<p>One factor I hadn&#8217;t considered, however, was road salt:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-806\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bike-v-boston-01-c-e1263240656420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bike-v-boston-01-c-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"My bike, caked with salt and grime\" title=\"bike v boston 01-c\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-806\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My bike, caked with salt and grime<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-805\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bike-v-boston-02-c-e1263240674625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bike-v-boston-02-c-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup of salt and grime\" title=\"bike v boston 02-c\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-805\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Closeup of salt and grime<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wiped as much of it off as I can, but it&#8217;s too cold to wash the bike (it would probably just freeze).  My hope is that the chain isn&#8217;t ruined and my components aren&#8217;t all going to rust.  Ah well, the show was fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went to a DJ show at Good Life, and since these shows usually last longer than the T runs and I also hate cabs, I decided to bike both ways (about 5.5 miles each way). It had been flurrying all day, but there wasn&#8217;t enough snow or ice on the roads to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bicycle v. Boston&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7,30,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}