{"id":83,"date":"2011-11-17T13:42:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-11-17T13:42:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:42:48","slug":"one-wheel-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/2011\/11\/17\/one-wheel-or-two\/","title":{"rendered":"One Wheel or Two?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the big question right now.\u00a0 About a year ago, I spoke briefly with someone who had <a href=\"http:\/\/thirtysixer.com\/\">unicycled across the country<\/a> and an old flame was ignited.\u00a0 Through my childhood I loved riding my uni!\u00a0 The possibility of touring on one, and even riding the Great Divide on one, had crossed my mind but it had never been more than a fleeting thought and I had no idea that others were actually doing this sort of thing. \u00a0I was excited to find out that at least two others,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/divideby1.blogspot.com\/\">Gracie Sorbello and Matt Burney<\/a>, had actually unicycled the Great Divide Route &#8211; it is possible!<\/p>\n<p>Over time the idea of unicycling the GDMBR faded; that is until yesterday when <a href=\"http:\/\/jenniferpharrdavis.tumblr.com\/\">Jennifer Pharr Davis<\/a>, an old friend and the new AT speed record holder (congrats Jenn!) who&#8217;s successfully organized several fundraisers made a recommendation: do something to set this ride apart from other rides.\u00a0 Of course, the first thing to pop into my head was to get rid of one of my wheels!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve put a poll up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greatdivideride\">Facebook page<\/a> so please go there and make your vote!\u00a0 And I&#8217;d love to see your comments up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greatdivideride\">Facebook wall<\/a>!\u00a0 Maybe you have a suggestion that&#8217;s not quite as crazy as getting rid of one of my wheels \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the big question right now.\u00a0 About a year ago, I spoke briefly with someone who had unicycled across the country and an old flame was ignited.\u00a0 Through my childhood I loved riding my uni!\u00a0 The possibility of touring on one, and even riding the Great Divide on one, had crossed my mind but it [&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-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdivideride.com\/unicycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}