{"id":1331,"date":"2010-10-03T23:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T07:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2010-10-03T23:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T07:20:37","slug":"motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2010\/10\/03\/motorcycles\/","title":{"rendered":"motorcycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took time to go replace my motorcycle gear this weekend, and nearly bought another motorcycle. I&#8217;m fixing the XT, but it&#8217;s taking some time, and I discovered another class of bike I liked that I had passed over previously.<\/p>\n<p>As I think back to when I bought my first motorcycle, I try to remember what was going on in my life that drove the purchase, so I can relate to what I&#8217;m feeling now. I had wanted to for a while, but something clicked then. I was having problems at work and at home.<\/p>\n<p>But today is a totally different set of problems. Work is awesome. Home is, well, relationships are a problem, but not in the same way. Back then I was starting to recover from moving out of my ex-girlfriends and finding my self esteem again. Now I&#8217;m discouraged about relationships on a meta level, it doesn&#8217;t make sense. I keep reassuring myself I&#8217;m trying too hard. I think that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>So I want to escape the trying, and I think that&#8217;s why I want to be riding right now, why I wanted to be riding last night, and the night before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took time to go replace my motorcycle gear this weekend, and nearly bought another motorcycle. I&#8217;m fixing the XT, but it&#8217;s taking some time, and I discovered another class of bike I liked that I had passed over previously. As I think back to when I bought my first motorcycle, I try to remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}