{"id":3474,"date":"2008-10-14T08:36:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2008-10-14T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:36:49","slug":"the-perfect-segway-between-home-and-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3474","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Segway Between Home and Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/z130d175d2902f4bc882574e100719061.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"141\" alt=\"z130d175d2902f4bc882574e100719061.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><\/span>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong>John Frisbie<\/strong> was sick of the gasoline bills he was paying to get from him home in Carlsbad to his job at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chsd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rady Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a><\/strong> in Kearny Mesa, riding the Coaster was fine, but all those busses just wasn&#8217;t doing it for him according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountytimes.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/13\/news\/neighbors\/z130d175d2902f4bc882574e100719061.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. That&#8217;s when he got a Segway scooter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Frisbie said it took him about 15 minutes to learn how to ride the Segway, which is balanced by gyroscopes to keep the rider upright. Frisbie said he&#8217;s fallen only once, and that it was his fault. . . &#8220;You have to make sure the tires don&#8217;t leave the ground. Make sure to take bumps slowly, or the gyroscopes will get off and you&#8217;ll fall off,&#8221; he said. . . . His new toy is attracting plenty of attention. Passing drivers honk and wave as he rolls by. He&#8217;s had people turn their cars around and ask him where he got the Segway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, there is absolutely no way to ride a Segway without looking like a total tool. But don&#8217;t tell John we said that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountytimes.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/13\/news\/neighbors\/z130d175d2902f4bc882574e100719061.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s John Frisbie was sick of the gasoline bills he was paying to get from him home in Carlsbad to his job at Rady Children&#8217;s Hospital in Kearny Mesa, riding the Coaster was fine, but all those busses just wasn&#8217;t doing it for him according to a story in the North County Times. That&#8217;s when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}