{"id":1205,"date":"2015-05-06T01:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2015-05-06T01:23:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:23:56","slug":"my-bike-maybe-at-its-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"My Bike:  Maybe at it&#8217;s end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought my bike for $25 here in the SKP park, 5 years ago, and then trashed it up a bit.  It&#8217;s purpose was to serve for my first Burning Man, then I figured the playa dust and alkali would eat it up and I&#8217;d toss it.  It survived my first BM, so I dragged it around in the back of my truck, subject to whatever weather I was in.  And three more Burning Mans.<\/p>\n<p>Each year things got a bit looser; the crank and the axles mainly.  This year at Burning Man I was watching for ball bearings to come pouring out of the crank.  Yeah, I know, some grease and some tools I could have fixed that right up.  But you don&#8217;t fix a BM bike.  Or maybe I should give it a shot?<\/p>\n<p>Parks and Recreation here in Port Townsend operates The Recyclery, where donated bikes, teenagers, and tools come together where you get a bike if budget matters more than style.  They also have containers of parts, which I might be needing if I decide to repair.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take a look at their parts, but maybe just look through their junk-pile to see what I can find in a new bike&#8230;.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought my bike for $25 here in the SKP park, 5 years ago, and then trashed it up a bit. It&#8217;s purpose was to serve for my first Burning Man, then I figured the playa dust and alkali would eat it up and I&#8217;d toss it. It survived my first BM, so I dragged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}