{"id":2217,"date":"2009-09-18T22:31:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2217.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T23:19:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T22:19:43","slug":"biking-at-making-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2009\/09\/18\/biking-at-making-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking at Making Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to write about my life as a bicycle commuter for a couple of years now.  I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/009721.html#236699\">touched on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/009918.html\">specific aspects<\/a>, both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/abi\/archives\/2007\/09\/04\/mn_fiets_my_bike\/\">here<\/a> and on Making Light.<\/p>\n<p>But a lot of the ways that biking to work matters to me really are not verbal, so I&#8217;ve struggled to phrase things in any useful or meaningful way.  I knew what I wanted to say in the middle of the post (what routes, how far, how long it took) and at the end (thinking as I ride).  But how to begin?<\/p>\n<p>My sordid history as a Rush fan came to the rescue.  The immediacy of the lyrics of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/r\/rush\/red+barchetta_20119966.html\">Red Barchetta<\/a> was exactly the tone I was looking for to pull the reader into the experience.<\/p>\n<p>The result: <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/011665.html\">My own personal <em>Rota Fortunae<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to write about my life as a bicycle commuter for a couple of years now. I&#8217;ve touched on specific aspects, both here and on Making Light. But a lot of the ways that biking to work matters to me really are not verbal, so I&#8217;ve struggled to phrase things in any useful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2009\/09\/18\/biking-at-making-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biking at Making Light<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[1712,1731],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who_can_categor","tag-bikes","tag-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}