{"id":1231,"date":"2009-09-26T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/hold-on-to-yer-butts.html"},"modified":"2009-09-26T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T12:03:00","slug":"hold-on-to-yer-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/hold-on-to-yer-butts.html","title":{"rendered":"Hold on to Yer Butts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/09\/24\/hondas-u3-x-personal-mobility-device-is-the-segway-of-unicycles\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 313px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2009\/09\/honda-u3-x-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>In case you don&#8217;t look goofy enough riding a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.segway.com\/\">Segway<\/a>, Honda has introduced a self-balancing unicycle of sorts.  It&#8217;s kinda clever with its fold-out seat and foot rests.  In theory you could ride it to work, then carry to your office and stuff it under your desk.<\/p>\n<p>Or in my case, I could just ride it in from the parking lot, which inexplicably seems to get further from the office door every day.  I wonder how it handles curbs and winter sidewalk salt?<\/p>\n<p>All of this assuming of course, that your self-esteem quotient is so high that you&#8217;d be willing to be seen tooling down the sidewalk with a hand on either butt cheek while precariously perched atop what appears to be a Sesame Street announcement that today is brought to you by the number &#8220;8&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Video of this bad boy in action is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zCSQPnGkt78&amp;feature=player_embedded\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you don&#8217;t look goofy enough riding a Segway, Honda has introduced a self-balancing unicycle of sorts. It&#8217;s kinda<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/hold-on-to-yer-butts.html\" title=\"Read Hold on to Yer Butts\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}