{"id":162,"date":"2004-10-19T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=162"},"modified":"2004-10-19T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T02:40:09","slug":"if-lance-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"if lance can,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>last weekend,  having saved a couple bucks from home improvement projects, I went out and bought a bike.<\/p>\n<p>I am a big guy, and I didn&#8217;t want to end up with some wal-mart wonder that I&#8217;d destroy in a week, I wanted something that would bear my weight and last as long as possible. I ended up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.trekbikes.com\/Assets\/Bikes\/City_Bike_Path\/Comfort\/Navigator_200\/asset_upload_file956_3573.jpg\">this<\/a>, which is a comfortable nice bike. I&#8217;m quite pleased, as I can sit upright and ride it, and I don&#8217;t look too ridiculous.  I&#8217;ve only ridden a few times, and the cardio workout is about all I can handle!  The point is to get my wind back, and while there are other ways, this is the only one, so far, that hasn&#8217;t pissed me off.<\/p>\n<p>The other reason I chose cycling is this yellow band on my wrist. If Lance Armstrong can overcome testicular cancer to beat the smelly bike pants off all those french bastards in the Tour De France, by god, I can ride around my block a couple times, improve my health, maybe lose a pound or two. <\/p>\n<p>At least, I hope so. I have to do SOMETHING. <\/p>\n<p>Terri OBrien said, on the radio this morning, that Genetics load the gun, behavior pulls the trigger. This is true, I think, of alcoholisim, drug dependency, risk of disease, obesity. It&#8217;s a damned true thing. I will try. <\/p>\n<p>Pitiably<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last weekend, having saved a couple bucks from home improvement projects, I went out and bought a bike. I am a big guy, and I didn&#8217;t want to end up with some wal-mart wonder that I&#8217;d destroy in a week, I wanted something that would bear my weight and last as long as possible. I [&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-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}