{"id":1165,"date":"2008-08-27T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2008-08-27T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:20:10","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-a-segway-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"The Pros and Cons of a Segway Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_5110.jpg\" alt=\"Songbae looking like GOB from Arrested Development...\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Songbae looking like GOB from Arrested Development...<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PROS:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You get to ride a segway.<\/li>\n<li>You get to ride a segway.<\/li>\n<li>You get to ride a segway.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>CONS:<\/p>\n<p>As Songbae says, It&#8217;s almost as embarrassing as wearing a bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>It costs $70 for three hours.<\/p>\n<p>It actually takes SOME coordination. (Bella crashed three times.)<\/p>\n<p>You are required to do a half hour training session, and wear a helmet.<\/p>\n<p>Segways are not allowed on the Mall, so despite the fact that you can cover more ground than by walking, you still don&#8217;t go to the Lincoln Memorial or Roosevelt Fountain.<\/p>\n<p>Although you spend the good part of 2 1\/2 hours on the segway, that also means that you don&#8217;t have time to go into any of the Smithsonian museums that you pass.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tVUvGMQ0aEw]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROS: You get to ride a segway. You get to ride a segway. You get to ride a segway. CONS: As Songbae says, It&#8217;s almost as embarrassing as wearing a bluetooth. It costs $70 for three hours. It actually takes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington-d-c"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}