{"id":2966,"date":"2008-08-07T20:26:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T22:27:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-08T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T05:26:25","slug":"wooden-pedal-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wooden-pedal-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Pedal Bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nUnlike the <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/archives\/2008\/05\/wooden_bikes.php\">wooden bikes<\/a> I posted about previously in Street Use, this wooden bike is unusual because it employs a pedal. It is made by the Cameroon wood sculptor Jules Bassong who normally makes effagies out of wood. He is riding his wooden bike on a tour of Cameroon. As reported by Walter Nana in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/site\/list_messages\/17327\">Africa News<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n &#8220;There is the break mechanism, if not I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to go down the steep slopes found along the Dschang road in the West Province of Cameroon,&#8221; Bassong noted.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><form mt:asset-id=\"1960\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bassong-wood-bike.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/Bassong-wood-bike.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the wooden bikes I posted about previously in Street Use, this wooden bike is unusual because it employs a pedal. It is made by the Cameroon wood sculptor Jules Bassong who normally makes effagies out of wood. He is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wooden-pedal-bicycle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}