{"id":741,"date":"2008-02-17T20:57:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T11:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-17\/741"},"modified":"2008-02-17T20:57:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T11:57:32","slug":"my-tryout-for-the-united-states-secret-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-02-17\/741","title":{"rendered":"My Tryout For the United States Secret Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

(This post's title is one of the “cute” titles that, as I wrote<\/span> yesterday<\/a>, I normally<\/span> try to avoid; now you know why I try<\/span> to avoid them.)<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nToo Fast for my Cell-Phone Camera<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

As I wrote last week, Anthony has learned to ride a\nbike<\/span><\/a>. Today we went out for a ride<\/span> on the sidewalks around town, and he\nrode for extended periods without my direct help. I wanted<\/span> to be right\nthere<\/i>, so I trotted<\/span>\/ran alongside him like a Secret<\/span> Service agent\nrunning alongside the President's car. It was quite<\/span> a workout.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Nearing home, we stopped by a park with a big<\/span> oval walkway, and I told<\/span>\nhim to go around it all by himself. He wasn't keen on the idea of me not\nbeing beside him, but I told<\/span> him I'd remain in the park, so he gave it a\ntry.<\/span> He started<\/span> off all by himself, and did one circuit without problem.<\/p>\n\n

As he approached, he was all smiles and said he wanted to continue, so\nhe did for another circuit. Approaching the end of the second time around,\nhe told me that I didn't<\/span> have to stand there, and that I could<\/span> go sit down. So I did<\/span>, and watched him go around, and around, and around.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nCircuit #8<\/span>\n(or so)\n<\/div>\n\n

He wanted me to pretend it was a race,<\/span> so each time he passed, I talked<\/span> like an announcer, saying that Anthony was winning the race and going “super fast.”<\/p>\n\n

I lost exact count, but he went 17 or 18 times around the thing –\nwell over two miles' worth – without touching his feet to the ground.\nCoincidentally, that's pretty much exactly what he did the first time he rode the bike<\/a>\n(with training wheels). This time, though, I got to<\/span> enjoy it from the comfort\nof a park<\/span> bench.<\/p>\n\n

After that 17th or 18th circuit, he said he wanted to go to the\nplayground, so he just continued no-stop in that direction as if he'd been riding all his life.<\/p>\n\n

After a while on the swing, we went back to the oval-track park and he\nrode again, this time in the snow.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNeither Rain, nor Sleet, nor Dark of Night...<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nGeorge Hitches a Ride<\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

As the snow was letting up, he decided to head home, but first I asked<\/span> for his “I'm Proud That I Can<\/span> Ride a Bike<\/span>” pose...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\n“I'm Proud That I Can<\/span> Ride a Bike<\/span>”<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(This post's title is one of the \"cute\" titles that, as I wrote yesterday, I normally try to avoid; now you know why I try to avoid them.)<\/p>

As I wrote last week, Anthony has learned to ride a bike. Today we went out for a ride on the sidewalks around town, and he rode for extended periods without my direct help. I wanted to be right there, so I trotted\/ran alongside him like a Secret Service agent running alongside the President's car. It was quite a workout.<\/p>

Nearing home, we stopped by a park with a big oval walkway, [...]","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\/741"}],"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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}