{"id":3623,"date":"2011-06-29T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2011-06-29T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:10:52","slug":"not-all-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=3623","title":{"rendered":"Not all bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to bum everyone out with my last post. In more and more ways, I&#8217;m finding that life experience and bike experience can occasionally parallel each other. Finding out about the death of my friend was a lot like<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1861\" target=\"_blank\"> face planting into a tree at ~12mph<\/a>. What has happened since then is like the remainder of my story that day.<\/p>\n<p>(you should click the link above and read it right now so that the remainder of this post makes sense&#8230; go ahead. I&#8217;ll wait)<\/p>\n<p>I found out last night that my uncle is in the hospital for kidney and lung problems. Finding out about this, I felt the same way that I did on the stalled out boat that day&#8230; at that point, nothing short of the boat catching on fire and sinking was going to be any worse than going face first into mother nature&#8217;s baseball bat. In a way, I feel the same now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sad. It sucks. It sucks really, really bad. But, eventually, the boat will crank, I&#8217;ll get to shore, ice down my lip, and the wounds will slowly heal\u00a0 to leave a barely perceivable scar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In much happier news, RDO parts are starting to arrive. I&#8217;ve got rims, spokes, seatpost, a KMC gold chain and some other random parts waiting for me at the shop right now. I&#8217;m hoping that the order from Hope (brakes and hubs) gets here soon so I can build the wheels. I&#8217;ll post a few teaser pics once that happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to bum everyone out with my last post. In more and more ways, I&#8217;m finding that life experience and bike experience can occasionally parallel each other. Finding out about the death of my friend was a lot like face planting into a tree at ~12mph. What has happened since then is like the remainder&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-Wr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}