{"id":28,"date":"2006-10-25T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T10:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2006-10-25T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T10:43:21","slug":"were-all-in-little-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/were-all-in-little-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re all in little boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all my concern over my friend Ian buying another scooter it got me thinking about the boxes we put ourselves in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a mac using, real ale and malt whiskey drinking, Honda and BMW buying, IAM training, living in St Albans, London, cigar smoking, Biker. And you&#8217;d be surprised at how many others are too.<\/p>\n<p>I buy into the whole thing you see, riding a bike is about more than just transport. That&#8217;s really where my problem with scooter riders starts, for the vast majority of riders a scooter is just transport, there&#8217;s no romance, no love, no depth to the experience. I know a lot of bikers have scooters too&#8230; not for fun&#8230; but because they&#8217;re perfect for cutting through the traffic.<\/p>\n<p>So is being a biker about more than just transport? Yes it is! It&#8217;s the same with computers, using a computer is about more than just getting the job done, for that matter any tool is about more than just getting the job done&#8230; it&#8217;s the reason why I use a mac, why I smoke cigars and not cigarettes, why I drink REAL ale, not the trash Burton Upon Trent chucks out today, and savour MALT whiskey&#8230; and why I may buy a BMW next.<\/p>\n<p>But all those things also point something else out&#8230; I don&#8217;t like to follow the crowd&#8230; well not the main crowd&#8230; the smaller slightly more interesting crowd I&#8217;m more than happy to follow &#8211; I quite get on with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all my concern over my friend Ian buying another scooter it got me thinking about the boxes we put ourselves in. I&#8217;m a mac using, real ale and malt whiskey drinking, Honda and BMW buying, IAM training, living in St Albans, London, cigar smoking, Biker. And you&#8217;d be surprised at how many others are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/were-all-in-little-boxes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We&#8217;re all in little boxes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}