{"id":24706,"date":"2013-05-16T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=24706"},"modified":"2013-05-09T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:46:48","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-ride-ordinary-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-ride-ordinary-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Do you ride an ordinary bicycle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/bike-chalk-trail-kit?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/21821_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bike Chalk Trail Kit | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/21821_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/21821_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/21821_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/21821_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Probably not. \u201cOrdinary bicycle\u201d is an example of a retronym, or name that is given to something only after a new version appears. For example, before color television was invented, there was no such thing as a black-and-white TV. It was just TV. The same is true for landline telephones, or straight-edge razors. The term \u201cordinary bicycle\u201d actually refers to the quaint, 19th century model with the giant front wheel and the tiny back wheel. It was given that name after the appearance of the \u201csafety bicycle,\u201d which is essentially the same version we pedal around on today. The safety bike quickly became so popular, however, that the ordinary bike was no longer ordinary and was given a different name altogether. Today they\u2019re best known as penny-farthings, named after two British coins of very different sizes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/bike-chalk-trail-kit?source=blog\">Bike Chalk Trail Kit, $27<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing ordinary about your ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}