{"id":1165,"date":"2013-08-27T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T23:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2013-08-27T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T23:06:36","slug":"on-the-streets-of-nw-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"On the streets of NW Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving the office this afternoon, I saw something that could really only happen here in Portlandia. <\/p>\n<p>A very attractive young woman on a bicycle. Copiously pierced and tattooed. Singing at the top of her lungs with her arms in what I can only describe as being in the bicycle equivalent of the posture you&#8217;d use sitting in the Lotus position. Every now and then she&#8217;d sing ommmmmm. <\/p>\n<p>You keep rocking it, bicycle meditation girl. You probably won&#8217;t need to stop quickly or turn today. <\/p>\n<p>Having your hands near the handlebars is overrated anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m writing this from my car, I&#8217;m quite tempted to track her down and swerve at her. Just to see how she&#8217;d handle it. <\/p>\n<p>Mean. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving the office this afternoon, I saw something that could really only happen here in Portlandia. A very attractive young woman on a bicycle. Copiously pierced and tattooed. Singing at the top of her lungs with her arms in what I can only describe as being in the bicycle equivalent of the posture you&#8217;d use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the streets of NW Portland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmmm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-iN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10154,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10154","url_meta":{"origin":1165,"position":0},"title":"An imaginary conversation about sight seeing","author":"Michelle","date":"June 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"i can't believe you're leaving before I had a chance to show you all of the official sights of my island.. 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