{"id":733,"date":"2008-02-11T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-11\/733"},"modified":"2008-02-11T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T13:59:08","slug":"anthony-can-ride-a-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-11\/733","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Can Ride a Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='045864' href=\"\/i\/JEF_045864.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_045864_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Proud Bike-Rider -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl\"\nid=\"i045864\"\nphotostream=\"anthony\"\ntitle=\"Proud Bike-Rider -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 200 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>640 sec, f\/6.3, ISO 400 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_045864.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_045864.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Proud Bike-Rider<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It's been almost two years since <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-06-12\/201\">Anthony got <span class='nobr'>a bicycle<\/span><\/a>, but\nalthough he enjoyed it <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> times at first, he didn't have all that much\ninterest again until lately, so when we went out for <span class='nobr'>a ride<\/span> today, it was\nperhaps the half-dozenth time we'd been out. However, <span class='nobr'>I have a<\/span> feeling\nhe'll really be wanting to do it more, because today &ndash; for the first\ntime &ndash; he was able to ride unassisted for fairly long stretches.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'd used <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-06-12\/201#comment-5320\">Carlos' great\nadvice on teaching <span class='nobr'>a kid<\/span> to ride <span class='nobr'>a bike<\/span><\/a> <span class='nobr'>a month<\/span> or so ago, which\nperhaps sparked Anthony's renewed interest.<\/p>\n\n<p>Kids often learn to ride bikes very early in Japan (three years old is\nnot uncommon), so at five years old, Anthony is pretty late in the game,\nbut he doesn't feel that &mdash; he's just proud, as are Fumie and I.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='045857' href=\"\/i\/JEF_045857.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_045857_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Man and his Steed (waiting for the cameraman to finish so that he can ride) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl\"\nid=\"i045857\"\ntitle=\"Man and his Steed (waiting for the cameraman to finish so that he can ride) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 86 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>500 sec, f\/6.3, ISO 400 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_045857.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_045857.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Man and his Steed<\/span>\n<br\/>(waiting for the cameraman to finish so that he can ride)\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Of course, when riding near the playground, we must stop for some of that...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='045811' href=\"\/i\/JEF_045811.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_045811_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl\"\nid=\"i045811\"\ntitle=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 105 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>1500 sec, f\/3.5, ISO 500 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_045811.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_045811.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's been almost two years since Anthony got a bicycle, but although he enjoyed it a few times at first, he didn't have all that much interest again until lately, so when we went out for a ride today, it was perhaps the half-dozenth time we'd been out. However, I have a feeling he'll really be wanting to do it more, because today &ndash; for the first time &ndash; he was able to ride unassisted for fairly long stretches.<\/p> <p>I'd used Carlos' great advice on teaching a kid to ride a bike a month or so ago, which perhaps sparked [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}