{"id":213,"date":"2011-12-04T19:56:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-12-04T19:56:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T00:56:02","slug":"blue-skies-on-the-blue-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/2011\/12\/04\/blue-skies-on-the-blue-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Skies on the Blue Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went out to the Blue Ridge Parkway for a ride this afternoon.  One of the very first cars to pass and wave was an old baby blue and white VW bus &#8211; I knew I was off to a good start!  Had a few drive by photo shoots and u-turns too.  Now I know how the deer and bear feel as the tourists slow down to take pictures!  The difference is: I&#8217;m one animal you&#8217;re welcome to approach and feed! <\/p>\n<p>While it makes me a little self conscious to think that everyone is staring at me as they go by, it&#8217;s also entertaining to see their facial expressions change with the realization that I&#8217;m &#8216;missing&#8217; a wheel.  One of these days I&#8217;ll turn the camera around on them to capture their reactions.  I have to say, after riding a bike and thereby being a source of annoyance, fear and anger to many drivers, it&#8217;s a nice change to receive smiles, waves and shouts of support instead.<\/p>\n<p>My one UPD (unplanned dismount) came as I rode through the Humpback Rocks parking area.  I was doing my best to look as cool as possible (hard to do on one wheel) as I passed a group of college students (ok, mostly college girls&#8230;)  Naturally, I encountered the one pothole in the parking lot.  I don&#8217;t think they noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went out to the Blue Ridge Parkway for a ride this afternoon. One of the very first cars to pass and wave was an old baby blue and white VW bus &#8211; I knew I was off to a good start! Had a few drive by photo shoots and u-turns too. Now I know how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}