{"id":1006,"date":"2021-07-21T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2021-07-21T11:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:14:58","slug":"welcoming-archie-7-4-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/21\/welcoming-archie-7-4-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Archie – 7\/4\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Earlier this year, I was presented with an opportunity to obtain a new piece of equipment.\u00a0 While it took a month before I was able to get assistance with putting it together, I wanted to introduce everyone to Archie (formally Archie L.).

I am extremely grateful to Challenged Athletes Foundation and ElliptiGO USA for providing the equipment for me!\u00a0 I look forward to getting used to it first on the stand and then taking it on the road.

I am visually impaired, and I realize that the last part of the prior paragraph will make my family nervous.\u00a0 But one of the biggest things that I was looking forward to when the ElliptiGO aarived was getting my independence back.\u00a0 It’s been about 30 years since I’ve had the confidence (and vision) to be out on a single bike by myself.\u00a0 But I look forward to the challenge — and the freedom.

Much, much more to come as I get used to Archie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, I was presented with an opportunity to obtain a new piece of equipment.\u00a0 While it took a month before I was able to get assistance with putting it together, I wanted to introduce everyone to Archie (formally Archie L.). I am extremely grateful to Challenged Athletes Foundation and ElliptiGO USA for providing … Continue reading Welcoming Archie – 7\/4\/21<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[265,430,7],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-challenged-athletes-foundation","tag-elliptigo","tag-james-gilliard"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}