{"id":183303626,"date":"2010-10-23T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=183303626"},"modified":"2010-10-23T13:40:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T13:40:26","slug":"it-is-the-bicycle-only-that-has-succeeded-thus-far-in-giving-a-new-motor-to-mankind-for-individual-locomotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=183303626","title":{"rendered":"It is the bicycle only that has succeeded thus far in giving a new motor to mankind for individual locomotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt&#8217;s Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-likers\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-debug\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-annotations\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div>\n<p>Reading an enthusiastic account of bicycling in New York City from this 1879 (!) article from the New York Times, I was curious about the reference to the sort of wonder skate referred to as a possible rival to the personal rapid transit offered by the bike.  It almost sounds like a proto-roller blade.  Anyone know what this is, have any references, etc.?<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/newyorktimesphilly.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/newyorktimesphilly.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" height=\"926\" width=\"586\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howwedrive.com\/2010\/10\/19\/a-new-motor-to-mankind-for-individual-locomotion\/\">https:\/\/www.howwedrive.com\/2010\/10\/19\/a-new-motor-to-mankind-for-individual-locomotion\/<\/a>oldId.20101023134026242<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt&#8217;s Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt Reading an enthusiastic account of bicycling in New York City from this 1879 (!) article from the New York Times, I was curious about the reference to the sort of wonder skate referred to as a possible rival to the personal rapid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=183303626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It is the bicycle only that has succeeded thus far in giving a new motor to mankind for individual locomotion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183303626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183303626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183303626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183303626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183303626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183303626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183303626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}