{"id":2092,"date":"2006-09-25T00:54:59","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T04:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/electric_bikes\/"},"modified":"2006-09-25T00:54:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T04:54:59","slug":"electric_bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/electric_bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Bikes in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American graduate student offers a short video on electric bicycles in China.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A6wQcIGx5Ew\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A6wQcIGx5Ew\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nSeems to me that a motor takes the fun out of it.  But I suppose it&#8217;s a helpful upgrade for the elderly.  And the &#8220;fun&#8221; probably wears off after a few years if that&#8217;s your only mode of transportation.<br \/>\nWithout elaborating on the topic, the graduate student says that Chinese cities are deemphasizing bicycle transportation in favor of cars.  Supposedly the latter makes for a more &#8220;modern&#8221; city.  To the contrary, I think the opposite is true; a city upgrades itself by becoming more cyclist friendly.<br \/>\nDavid Herron has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7gen.com\/blog\/re-electric-bikes-china\/1581\">a few more thoughts<\/a> on the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/electric_bikes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Electric Bikes in China\"><p>An American graduate student offers a short video on electric bicycles in China. Seems to me that a motor takes the fun out of it. But I suppose it&#8217;s a helpful upgrade for the elderly. And the &#8220;fun&#8221; probably wears off after a few years if that&#8217;s your only mode of transportation. Without elaborating on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}