{"id":16702,"date":"2020-07-30T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=16702"},"modified":"2020-07-30T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T12:06:09","slug":"new-comment-on-reddit-1625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=16702","title":{"rendered":"New comment on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"md\">\n<p>The bicycle is not especially <em>difficult<\/em> to manufacture &#8211; fundamentally, you only need about 6-10 simple parts for the frame, a seat, a steering bar, some kind of pedal\/crank arrangement, 2 wheels, and a chain\/belt to connect the drive crank to a wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Or, even more simply (for a balance bike like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dandy_horse\">Dandy horse<\/a>), you need two wheels, a seat, a couple pieces for a frame, and a steering bar.<\/p>\n<p>It <em>is<\/em> a very simple machine.<\/p>\n<p>However, you <em>also<\/em> need to have a society with a level of free time and disposable income to engage in &quot;frivolities&quot; like riding a bike.<\/p>\n<p>Until relatively recently in human history (roughly the last 200-250 years), the overwhelming majority of all humans on the planet were [effectively] struggling to survive.<\/p>\n<p>So in addition to the relative simplicity of the machine, you <em>also<\/em> needed to have a level of societal leisure time that just did not exist prior to about the early 1800s.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>July 30, 2020 at 07:50AM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/explainlikeimfive\/comments\/i0kfkq\/eli5_how_is_it_possible_that_the_bicicle_is_such\/fzpxuhk?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bicycle is not especially difficult to manufacture &#8211; fundamentally, you only need about 6-10 simple parts for the frame, a seat, a steering bar, some kind of pedal\/crank arrangement, 2 wheels, and a chain\/belt to connect the drive crank to a wheel. Or, even more simply (for a balance bike like the Dandy horse), &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=16702\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New comment on reddit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16703,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions\/16703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16702"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=16702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}