{"id":201,"date":"2006-06-12T01:03:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-06-12\/201"},"modified":"2006-06-12T01:03:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T16:03:36","slug":"anthonys-first-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-06-12\/201","title":{"rendered":"Anthony’s First Bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nAnthony's First Bike<\/b><\/big>Fumie (R) and her mom (L) in the background<\/div>\n\n

\n\nFumie's folks have been wanting for some to get Anthony his first bicycle\nas a present<\/span> for his starting preschool<\/a> (which is a\n“big boy<\/a>”\nmilestone). Fumie's Dad was in town (from Malaysia<\/a>, where he's\nstationed for work), so today was the day.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nWe went to the store, and Anthony picked out his present. He had a<\/span> choice\nof silver, yellow, and red, and had not a moment's<\/span> hesitation when picking\nred.\n\n<\/p>\n\n

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We went to a park near the house, and gave it a try.<\/span> The seat came<\/span> a bit<\/span>\ntoo low. It was much<\/span> easier for him once it was raised a few<\/span> inches.<\/p>\n\n

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Off we go!<\/p>\n\n

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The little park we were at had an oval\nwalkway around it, as you can sort of see in the center of this satellite\nphoto<\/a> if you zoom up (if you switch to the “map view”, it's more clear,\nbut smaller).\n\n<\/p>

\n\nAnthony went around the oval -- a distance<\/span> of about 200 meters (220 yards). It was slow<\/span> going, as he wasn't used to it, and there were slight slopes to\ncontend with. It took over<\/span> 6 and a half<\/span> minutes to make that first\n200-meter circuit. Of course, Fumie or I followed<\/span> along with him the whole\nway (the whole time he was on the bicycle, actually).\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThen he went again. And then again<\/span>, and again and again, with one of us in\ntow.... 18 times<\/b>, for a total<\/span> of 3.6 kilometers (2.25 miles)!! And then there<\/span> was the third-of-a-mile ride home -- he\/we really got a workout.<\/span>\n\n<\/p>\n
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\n\nHe'd also gotten better at riding, because by the time he was toward his\n18th cycle around the park, he'd cut the time down to 100 seconds (for an\naverage speed of 4.5 mph -- that's a trot<\/span> for daddy!).\n\n<\/p>

\n\nBy the way, I know all<\/span> these statistics because I'd left my GPS unit<\/a> in the bike's\nbasket, and it recorded a tracklog<\/span> of the whole thing. (That's the map view of it\nthere in yellow).\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI used the GPS data to geoencode all the photos here, which you can see if\nyou view their Exif\ndata<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>\n

\n\nIn the end, he was tuckered out, but was still able to ride home and park\nhis bike in his own spot, which, of course, made him feel quite proud. Thanks Obaa-chan and Ojii-chan\n(“Grandma and Grandpa on Mom's side”)!\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fumie's folks have been wanting for some to get Anthony his first bicycle as a present for his starting preschool (which is a \"big boy\" milestone). Fumie's Dad was in town (from Malaysia, where he's stationed for work), so today was the day. <\/p>

We went to the store, and Anthony picked out his present. He had a choice of silver, yellow, and red, and had not a moment's hesitation when picking red. <\/p>

We went to a park near the house, and gave it a try. The seat came a bit too low. It was much easier for [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}