{"id":2401,"date":"2010-05-19T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T19:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/the_ageless_app\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T15:03:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T19:03:39","slug":"the_ageless_app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2010\/05\/the_ageless_app\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ageless Appeal of Bicycle Bling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=9C01E0D7173BEE33A2575AC1A9679C94679ED7CF&#038;scp=1&#038;sq=big+cycle+show+opened&#038;st=p\">January 19, 1896, <em>N.Y. Times<\/em> article<\/a> regarding a jam-packed &#8220;Big Cycle Show&#8221; at Madison Square Garden:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Young men used to save up their money to buy a horse or a watch. Now, they save to buy a bicycle, and there are thousands who are cutting off unnecessary expenses in the way of clothing, cigars, and amusements and luxuries, so as to possess a wheel.  Once they buy a wheel and become enthusiasts, they want the latest model, and so they become regular customers year after year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you went to a bicycle industry convention today, you&#8217;d see different equipment than that showcased 114 years ago.  But the phenomenon you&#8217;d see would be largely the same: enthusiasts willing to shell out hundreds (or thousands!) of dollars for a sleeker, lighter,  &#8220;faster&#8221; velocipede.  I can relate.<br \/>\nThe more things change, the more they stay the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2010\/05\/the_ageless_app\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The Ageless Appeal of Bicycle Bling\"><p>From a January 19, 1896, N.Y. Times article regarding a jam-packed &#8220;Big Cycle Show&#8221; at Madison Square Garden: Young men used to save up their money to buy a horse or a watch. Now, they save to buy a bicycle, and there are thousands who are cutting off unnecessary expenses in the way of clothing, [&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-2401","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\/2401","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=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}