{"id":152,"date":"2004-02-29T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-02-29T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T03:32:00","slug":"happy-leap-day!","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Happy Leap Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow my body didn&#8217;t get the memo that it wasn&#8217;t supposed to sleep through February 29th. I&#8217;m convinced that February 29th happens every year and we just sleep through it most of the time. I was pretty sleepy.<\/p>\n<p>I did convince my buddy Il to get off his duff and ride one of my bikes to REI to pick up whatever they were giving away today. I was hoping for another 20% off coupon, but today I got a Topeak Toolbar. So REI and the chance to have another $10 donation given to the Bicycle Transportation Alliance got me on my bike for the second time in two days, and the second time in three years.<\/p>\n<p>Il had to borrow one of my bikes because even though he&#8217;s a bikie, he only has one bike. It&#8217;s a $1000+ Trek, but the frame is cracked. I haven&#8217;t ridden in years, but I have at least three ridable bikes, and another in pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the bike I rode today was the victim of my dad&#8217;s exploding pesticides. I couldn&#8217;t scrub the crap off the bike, but I rode it anyway. Ick is about all I can say about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow my body didn&#8217;t get the memo that it wasn&#8217;t supposed to sleep through February 29th. I&#8217;m convinced that February 29th happens every year and we just sleep through it most of the time. I was pretty sleepy. I did convince my buddy Il to get off his duff and ride one of my bikes to REI to pick up whatever they were giving away today. I was hoping for another 20% off coupon, but today I got a Topeak Toolbar. So REI and the chance to have another $10 donation given to the Bicycle Transportation Alliance got me on my bike for the second time in two days, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Leap Day!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}