{"id":370,"date":"2009-03-01T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/03\/01\/bike-polo\/"},"modified":"2009-03-01T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T17:36:00","slug":"bike-polo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/03\/01\/bike-polo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike polo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\">I was hangin&#8217; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedrive.ca\/\">my old hood<\/a> yesterday, and saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikepolo.ca\/club\/east-van-bike-polo\">these guys<\/a> on the tennis courts:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 400px;height: 300px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SarIpLjxSWI\/AAAAAAAAA08\/ZLMHmpSsdXg\/s400\/IMG_0337.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div>Cool! I guess the solid wheels are meant to prevent someone&#8217;s stick going through the spokes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div>It still got pretty physical though:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SarKVR05ZOI\/AAAAAAAAA1c\/iZ_9-kokPLU\/s1600-h\/IMG_0345.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SarKVR05ZOI\/AAAAAAAAA1c\/iZ_9-kokPLU\/s400\/IMG_0345.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: auto;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And a couple of people got knocked off their bikes, although obviously the most spectacular crash happened just after I&#8217;d put my phone away.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SarIqXLsAkI\/AAAAAAAAA1U\/JjLUZjlttiM\/s400\/IMG_0346.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: auto;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">They were having tons of fun. But, given that when setting out for the Drive, I managed to fall off my own bike before I even got on it*, I think I&#8217;d better pass.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small\">*I also forgot my lock and had to spend $55 on a new one. D&#8217;oh!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hangin&#8217; in my old hood yesterday, and saw these guys on the tennis courts: Cool! I guess the solid wheels are meant to prevent someone&#8217;s stick going through the spokes. It still got pretty physical though: And a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/03\/01\/bike-polo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-sport","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}