{"id":21,"date":"2002-10-28T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2002\/10\/28\/chaos\/index.php"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2002\/10\/28\/chaos\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"Chaos&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time i&#8217;ve really wanted to try out Critical Mass. it&#8217;s this crazy bike ride that happens the last friday of every month in downtown sf.  they gather a huge crowd of thousands of people on bicycles and everyone rides their bikes downtown during rush hour traffic.  in a way it&#8217;s a protest against so many people driving cars.  finally, last friday i got to try it.<\/p>\n<p>It was so dope!  people totally go all out and attach huge speakers to their bikes so they can blast music, others dress in wacky costumes, and everyone just basically goes totally crazy.  it was just so nuts to be biking through the city and taking over all the streets.  people had no regard for red lights, traffic, or anything.  there were just so many people that the cars had no choice but to give bikers the right of way.  we would take over all the lanes in the whole street.. and it was such a trip to see the street of downtown sf filled w\/ nothing but bikes.  we even biked through several tunnels. anyone who&#8217;s honked their horn in a tunnel knows how crazy it sounds due to the acoustics&#8230;.  well, imagine a tunnel filled w\/ screaming people , clanging bells, hectic drum beats!  so dope!<\/p>\n<p>the whole time i just kept thinking&#8230; dayum, how dope is it to be living here in sf.  san francisco is so damn cool cause all the time you get to try out new experiences that are very out of the ordinary.  Experiences that make you think &#8220;this is so random! does this kind of stuff happen anywhere else?&#8221;  it has something for everyone and the cool stuff is never-ending.<\/p>\n<p>-v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time i&#8217;ve really wanted to try out Critical Mass. it&#8217;s this crazy bike ride that happens the last friday of every month in downtown sf. they gather a huge crowd of thousands of people on bicycles and everyone rides their bikes downtown during rush hour traffic. in a way it&#8217;s a protest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2002\/10\/28\/chaos\/index.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chaos&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}