{"id":1740,"date":"2012-10-08T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2012-10-08T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:30:07","slug":"the-super-powers-of-a-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2012\/10\/08\/the-super-powers-of-a-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"The super powers of a bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I could have any super powers, I would want to be able to teleport. Just imagine the things I can accomplish with the time having to drive somewhere and find parking, not to mention avoiding those parking tickets. I also wouldn\u2019t have to worry about leaving extra early to walk there. Well, since I don\u2019t have super powers, the next best thing is a bike.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I rented my bike through the UWSP Student Government Association Bike Rental Program, I haven\u2019t been rushing quite as much. I live within walking distance from campus but having a bike has cut my time to and from campus in half. Not to mention, the bike rental was free!<\/p>\n<p>As great as it is, I did have a small misfortune. You see, the bike I have, which was the smallest available one at the time, is still slightly too big for me. With my toes barely touching the ground, I had a humiliating event of falling off my bike stopping at an interception. But at least I know the brakes work, and my co-worker was able to get a laugh out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only super powers existed to get some bike lanes around campus. Or perhaps they do\u2026<\/p>\n<p>-Song<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/category\/students\/song-x\/\">Song Xiong<\/a> is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point majoring in\u00a0dietetics and communication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I could have any super powers, I would want to be able to teleport. Just imagine the things I can accomplish with the time having to drive somewhere and find parking, not to mention avoiding those parking tickets. I also wouldn\u2019t have to worry about leaving extra early to walk there. Well, since I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,23],"tags":[343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}