{"id":96,"date":"2008-03-26T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/ideas-for-birds\/spring-loaded-cars\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T16:33:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T14:33:02","slug":"spring-loaded-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/ideas-for-birds\/spring-loaded-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring-loaded cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining a blog requires constancy and vanity: I&#8217;m obviously lacking in one of those, but I&#8217;m not sure which.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas for the environment, and hence for birds. This month&#8217;s apparently &#8220;whacko&#8221; suggestion is spring-loaded cars.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine it: go to a &#8220;petrol&#8221; station which has no petrol but rather exercise bikes of similar. There you can pedal for as long as you like on a static bike which in fact is winding up a very strong, resistant spring-loaded mechanism housed inside a rechangeable tube. You pay nothing for the exercise, and in fact get a credit for replacing your spent &#8220;tube&#8221; or cannister for a recharged one, depending on the amount of exercise you have done, or how much you want to pay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no engineer, so I expect such a system would have to be used in combination with petrol or similar, as a spring-petrol hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>Want more? Got more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining a blog requires constancy and vanity: I&#8217;m obviously lacking in one of those, but I&#8217;m not sure which. Ideas for the environment, and hence for birds. This month&#8217;s apparently &#8220;whacko&#8221; suggestion is spring-loaded cars. Imagine it: go to a &#8220;petrol&#8221; station which has no petrol but rather exercise bikes of similar. There you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas-for-birds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-1y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}