{"id":160,"date":"2009-06-22T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=160"},"modified":"2015-04-03T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T08:21:10","slug":"my-exercise-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/my-exercise-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"My Exercise Bike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April I took a gamble. Knowing full well my history of not using fitness equipment that I buy. You can see my not-so-often-used cross trainer in the background; I buy quite a lot of exercise equipment. The gamble was to buy one more, and I splashed out on an exercise bike.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EQ_bpB_nhfQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>The idea came from reading\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stationary_Bike\" target=\"\" name=\"\">Stephen King\u00a0novella <em>Stationary Bike<\/em><\/a>, which is what I gather Americans call exercise bikes.<!--more-->To my surprise, it has been a piece of equipment that I have used regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Key\u00a0to my regular usage\u00a0is the fact that my exercise bike sits in front of my beloved flat-screen TV. I&#8217;m always pretty busy during semesters juggling work and study, but one activity I always find time for regardless of how busy I am is watching TV. Combining watching TV with my exercise bike sessions ensures that I also find time for exercise. Buying that bike really was a stroke of genius: two birds, one stone.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video from June showing me in action watching an episode of <em>Star Trek Enterprise<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April I took a gamble. Knowing full well my history of not using fitness equipment that I buy. You can see my not-so-often-used cross trainer in the background; I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-fitness","tag-11","post_format-post-format-video"],"views":4371,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}