{"id":222,"date":"2006-10-06T13:58:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2006-10-06T14:02:48","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T21:02:48","slug":"the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/the-next-big-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The next big thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a lady riding down the street on a unicycle. I seem to see more and more of these now. Could unicycles be the next big fad? At one point, it was hip to have a fixed gear bicycle as seen by the number of fixies road by bike messengers and kids who aspired for the messenger look, as well as the popularity of sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixedgeargallery.com\/\">fixedgeargallery.com<\/a>. I admit, I&#8217;ve been taken with the fixed gear thing for awhile. But why would I want something with less gears, let alone no handlebars, breaks or one wheel when I could have more?<\/p>\n<p>It seems like this shares a common thread with, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2004\/09\/03\/introducing-the-hipster-pda\/\">hipster pda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alligatorboogaloo.com\/uke\/\">ukuleles<\/a>, knitting and gardening. These are all fads around simplicity. I don&#8217;t know, maybe people want to make this busy 8 blade razor world simple again, like bringing back the double mint twins.  Maybe it&#8217;s just fun? All I know is that if you want to get ahead of this craze, I would start reserving your domain names for ukulecrazy.com (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.godaddy.com\">available at time of posting<\/a>) and the like now. <\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, maybe this trend has already jumped the shark,  I see there is already a section for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicycle#Extreme_Unicycling\">Extreme Unicycl<\/a>e riding in wikipedia. I am not making this up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a lady riding down the street on a unicycle. I seem to see more and more of these now. Could unicycles be the next big fad? At one point, it was hip to have a fixed gear bicycle as seen by the number of fixies road by bike messengers and kids who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}