{"id":45,"date":"2025-01-15T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:58:04","slug":"little-ride-log-1-14-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Little Ride Log 1\/14\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4168-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4168-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4168-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4168-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4168-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4168-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">We got an extra inch, maybe two, around this afternoon going into the night. I took the slower way home through the alleys coming out of the Strip into Friendship, then cut through CMU until I got to Schenley Park where I saw these deer moseying across the golf course. That was one of the first times I saw something and thought &#8220;Oh wait I <em>do <\/em>have my camera with me&#8221; since gaining access to a Nikon Coolpix (thanks Beryl).<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4180-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4180-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4180-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4180-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4180-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4180-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">At the end of my ride in Frick on Monday, I went past someone who I thought was pulling just a sled behind them but turned out to be a whole ass deer. We made eye contact. <br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4183-2-1-edited-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4183-2-1-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4183-2-1-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4183-2-1-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4183-2-1-edited-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSCN4183-2-1-edited-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Filled with new feeling in my fingertips and that little zest for life that comes from standing around with a bunch of deer (more on that later) I had the extra wisdom to descend Ouroborus and set up my bike for an &#8216;Under Construction&#8217; picture. Glad I didn&#8217;t have an actual puncture: I quickly realized my pump wasn&#8217;t blowin&#8217; and I couldn&#8217;t over inflate my tube and put it somewhere funny. I ended up playing around with the leather gasket at home to get a better seal. Now it&#8217;s almost <em>too <\/em>good.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/QuinceyBW-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36\" srcset=\"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/QuinceyBW-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/QuinceyBW-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/QuinceyBW-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/QuinceyBW-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/city-loop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/QuinceyBW-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And I stopped off to meet Quincey, a creature of Opal&#8217;s creation from this weekend. I brushed off today&#8217;s dusting so he should be able to see what&#8217;s going on for the next little while.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/city-loop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}