{"id":1370,"date":"2008-05-24T06:53:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T11:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/24\/bike-shopping\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T06:53:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T11:53:02","slug":"bike-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/24\/bike-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"bike shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Last month, I mentioned that I was in love with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/trading-paris-for-london\/\">Dahon Glide<\/a>.  Unfortunately, every time I&#8217;ve been to the website, it says that it&#8217;s not yet available for purchase. <\/p>\n<p>So this week I finally decided to just e-mail the company and find out what&#8217;s going on.  Apparently the bike was officially &#8220;released&#8221; about a week ago, but, of course, the closest retailer that has them in stock is out in the middle of Long Island.  Because that&#8217;s convenient.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little bit wary about ordering a bike, even one as cute as the Glide, without trying it out first, so I&#8217;m going to try to hit Toga bikes this weekend to see if they can special order one for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now I just need to figure out how to get my old, non-folding bike (that needs a tune-up) out of my apartment and up to my parents&#8217; garage in Massachusetts.  <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a puzzle for another day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I mentioned that I was in love with the Dahon Glide. Unfortunately, every time I&#8217;ve been to the website, it says that it&#8217;s not yet available for purchase. So this week I finally decided to just e-mail the company and find out what&#8217;s going on. Apparently the bike was officially &#8220;released&#8221; about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-m6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}