{"id":452,"date":"2007-07-20T04:43:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2007-07-20T04:43:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T10:43:13","slug":"is-this-too-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/is-this-too-texan\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Too Texan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\">By DENISE GAMINO     Austin American-Statesman (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/tx\/4979141.html\" target=\"_blank\">full article<\/a><\/strong>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN     \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Anyone can steer a bicycle in the typical manner, with chrome handlebars hardly worth a second glance.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there are those who take things way too literally. They feel the need to steer a bicycle with a steer, or at least the part of a steer that, with a squint of imagination, sort of looks like handlebars.<\/p>\n<p>These people ride around Austin on funky bikes gripping longhorn steer horns.<\/p>\n<p>There are not yet enough of these longhorn bicycles to make a herd, but a definite ripple of delight tickles those who catch a glimpse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some people take pictures,&#8221; said Jon Williams, a master carpenter and contractor whose horn handlebars are so long he can&#8217;t ride his bicycle on the sidewalk. &#8220;The ladies like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s good steering,&#8221; others yell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DENISE GAMINO Austin American-Statesman (full article) AUSTIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Anyone can steer a bicycle in the typical manner, with chrome handlebars hardly worth a second glance. Then, there are those who take things way too literally. They feel the need <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/is-this-too-texan\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-7i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}