{"id":1166,"date":"2004-08-03T17:59:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T02:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:56:18","slug":"20040803-0-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/2004\/08\/20040803-0-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body bottommargin=15 leftmargin=10 rightmargin=10 topmargin=15>Last week I started a new job with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dod.mil\/nii\/\">Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration)<\/a>. My new office isn&#8217;t in the Pentagon anymore, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffmetcalf.com\/pentagon\/images\/9.jpg\">Huzzah!<\/a>) it&#8217;s in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crystal_City,_Virginia\">Crystal City<\/a>. The down side of this is that I&#8217;m slightly farther away from home in the new space, but the up side is that I&#8217;ve used this as an excuse to buy a <a href=\"\/local\/ycobrax.jpg\">motor scooter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In Virginia, like many places in the US, vehicles with less than 50cc displacement engine are technically described in the law as &quot;mopeds&quot;, and are regulated pretty much like bicycles. In other words, you don&#8217;t need a motorcycle license, nor does the vehicle require license plates or registration. Most important for this area, it&#8217;s perfectly legal to park them anywhere you would park a bicycle. (Parking in Crystal City currently costs about $110 USD per month.) Plus, it&#8217;s fun to ride!<br \/><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I started a new job with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration). My new office isn&#8217;t in the Pentagon anymore, (Huzzah!) it&#8217;s in Crystal City. The down side of this is that I&#8217;m slightly farther away from home in the new space, but the up side is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}