{"id":2980,"date":"2022-02-12T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T22:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2022-02-12T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T22:20:45","slug":"first-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2022\/02\/12\/first-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I need a little more of this in my life. <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 652px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2980-1\" width=\"652\" height=\"367\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firstRide.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firstRide.mp4\">https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firstRide.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>And by &#8216;this&#8217;, I variously mean:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dirt roads<\/li>\n<li>Physical exertion<\/li>\n<li>Having a camera with me on dirt roads that require physical exertion<\/li>\n<li>Trainsong without horns, or at least not horns close by, because as scripture tells us, &#8220;everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance; everybody thinks it&#8217;s true&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Capturing video, bringing it to clean robust hardware, and editing it with free and open source software<\/li>\n<li>Publishing video (this is my first public one ever), first on platforms I control utterly, and then selectively on ones that generate revenue (which won&#8217;t happen today, but is a priority for Soon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus a whole bunch of stuff that I&#8217;ll think of as soon as I hit Submit, because that&#8217;s just always. <\/p>\n<p>For the record, this is a first ride of a &#8216;Lectric&#8217; brand E-bike, which we test drove at their Phoenix home base some days ago, and which costs $999 plus tax, and which arrived via free shipping yesterday. It&#8217;s a lot of fun to pilot, and although this is not a review, it seems sturdily built and worth the price both as a means of exercise here at home, and as backup transportation on the road in case the truck goes down&#8211;the electrified range on it is about 50 miles and it can be pedaled even with the battery at zero. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I need a little more of this in my life. And by &#8216;this&#8217;, I variously mean: Dirt roads Physical exertion Having a camera with me on dirt roads that require physical exertion Trainsong without horns, or at least not horns close by, because as scripture tells us, &#8220;everybody loves the sound of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}