{"id":1672,"date":"2007-07-24T19:53:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T00:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2007-07-24T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T00:53:15","slug":"okay-i-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Okay, I did it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took my MSF course last fall, and got my license. And all this year, so far, I&#8217;ve been hesitant about riding. I&#8217;m still a rank newbie, without any appreciable skills. I have been making excuses for some time now. I should probably get new tires. I should get a helmet that fits better. I ought to make sure it runs perfectly, yadda yadda, yadda. And the summer is slipping by, day by day. <\/p>\n<p>SO last night I inspected the tires. No dry rot. Still pretty much full of air, so no appreciable leaks. I tire-foam &#8217;em and they clean up OK, look ok. Tonight I just decided I&#8217;d procrastinated enough. I went to Wal-Mart and spent $83 and bought a helmet. Should do fine, because I only have an $83 wal-mart head. Anyway, I drove it. Yeah, I still have some futzing to do with the carbs. I should get someone who knows more to tune it for me. I haven&#8217;t even taken it a mile out of my neighborhood, this year. <\/p>\n<p>But I rode.<\/p>\n<p>it felt good. I&#8217;m still a little scared. Later, I expect to be a LOT scared.  But I rode. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my MSF course last fall, and got my license. And all this year, so far, I&#8217;ve been hesitant about riding. I&#8217;m still a rank newbie, without any appreciable skills. I have been making excuses for some time now. I should probably get new tires. I should get a helmet that fits better. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}