{"id":191,"date":"2009-01-29T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T07:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2009-01-30T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:23:16","slug":"thursday-titillation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Titillation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was just reading over on Treehugger about a recent competition to design a commuter bike for the masses. You can read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2009\/01\/bike-competition-winner.php?dcitc=daily_nl\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> but the comments after the article raise some very interesting (and mostly valid) points.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Stephens sums it perfectly:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In other words, these design competitions are intellectual circle jerks, because the goal is to win the competition, not to create a better design.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, these design competitions are intellectual circle jerks, because the goal is to win the competition, not to create a better design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,14,15],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-bikes","tag-design","tag-treehuggin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}