{"id":328,"date":"2005-10-13T19:52:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/328"},"modified":"2005-10-13T19:52:05","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T01:52:05","slug":"added-to-list-of-jobs-to-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/328","title":{"rendered":"Added to list of &#8220;Jobs to Have&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching how to uglify my bike &#8211; I have a shiny red,   white,   and blue (gag) mountain bike, and I don&#8217;t want it to get stolen. Chambana isn&#8217;t an urban letch, but college towns=stolen bikes.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve decided that uglifying might take more than a little duct tape (I&#8217;m considering knitting a bike cozy), I ran across a really fun, engaging article\/blog post about deciding to be a bike courier. The author used to be a coder, so there&#8217;s an element of &#8216;damn the man&#8217;, but in a cube-hater way. Office Space is mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been riding more than I have in years, so maybe that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so charmed by this little piece of writing. I could see being a bike courier for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you hate being outside, it&#8217;s an interesting peek into the life of, as the author states, &#8220;two wheels and a meat motor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuro5hin.org\/story\/2005\/3\/19\/133129\/548\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching how to uglify my bike &#8211; I have a shiny red, white, and blue (gag) mountain bike, and I don&#8217;t want it to get stolen. Chambana isn&#8217;t an urban letch, but college towns=stolen bikes. Although I&#8217;ve decided that uglifying might take more than a little duct tape (I&#8217;m considering knitting a 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}