{"id":21607,"date":"2014-10-25T23:31:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T07:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=21607"},"modified":"2014-10-25T23:31:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T07:31:46","slug":"new-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=21607","title":{"rendered":"New Ride."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/umSaN2Kgog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/pinkwall_publicbike.jpg\" height=\"435\" width=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unsolicited fact about me:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve never owned a bike until today.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Pinterest, I finally have my first bike at 32 years young! I always had roller skates when I was a kid, but I never had a bike (which probably explains my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bike-riding skills<\/a>, or lack thereof). I&#8217;ve also never ridden a horse, but I have ridden an elephant. This post could get lengthy if I keep listing all the things I&#8217;ve ridden, so I&#8217;ll move along&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Inhabitat chose my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/mayanrocks\/going-mint-green-in-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Going (Mint) Green in Style<\/a> pinterest board as the grand prize winner of their <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/win-a-public-bike-worth-574-or-a-solar-power-backpack-in-inhabitats-back-to-school-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back-to-School contest<\/a>! It&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve actually been in school, but my time at the Art Institute sure taught me how to design a pretty pinterest board.<\/p>\n<p>I won this <a href=\"http:\/\/publicbikes.com\/p\/PUBLIC-C1-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Bike<\/a> plus a <a href=\"http:\/\/publicbikes.com\/p\/PUBLIC-Federico-Red-Brass-Bell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brass bell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/publicbikes.com\/p\/PUBLIC-Rear-Rack-with-Spring-Clip-2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rear rack<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/publicbikes.com\/p\/PUBLIC-Rear-Basket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bike basket<\/a> I put on my wish list earlier this year before I had a bike to attach it to! They even sent me a tube of turquoise touch up paint for when I inevitably eat shit and scuff up that beautiful paint job. I considered getting the cream bike instead since it seemed like a safer color choice, but my sister said, &#8220;Since when do you make safe choices?&#8221; Touch&eacute;. I am reckless as fuck.<\/p>\n<p>I asked my friend if there were any lakes to go riding around up here, and she was all like, &#8220;THIS IS LA.&#8221; So I guess I&#8217;m riding my free bike at the beach then??? What a rough life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsolicited fact about me: I&#8217;ve never owned a bike until today. Thanks to Pinterest, I finally have my first bike at 32 years young! I always had roller skates when I was a kid, but I never had a bike (which probably explains my bike-riding skills, or lack thereof). I&#8217;ve also never ridden a horse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,250,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinterest","category-unsolicited-facts","category-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}