{"id":3856,"date":"2006-07-17T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/07\/17\/ians-out\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T18:54:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T23:54:19","slug":"ians-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/07\/17\/ians-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian&#8217;s Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, Ian Woods has abandoned his attempt at a solo crossing of America via his souped-up and high-tech trike. I&#8217;m disappointed but not surprised, and I think Ian probably feels the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Such an outcome is the unfortunate probability when big dreams collide with the laws of physics and physiology, said laws being pliable but unbreakable. It&#8217;s possible to compute the power necessary to drive an 80 pound trike and trailer down the road, and the physical capabilities of a given human being are likewise measurable. If the rider&#8217;s sustainable wattage and VO<sub>2<\/sub> max aren&#8217;t sufficient, there&#8217;s no amount of wishing that will balance that equation.<\/p>\n<p>The drive and determination of the human spirit is a wild card, an unknowable variable in the calculus of achievement. People have done remarkable things in defiance of logic and predictive science.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Ian was counting on that spirit to compensate for the preparation he wasn&#8217;t able to acquire. lf so, I commend him, for the only undertaking that can properly be called an adventure is the one for which the certainty of success is less than 100%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Woods won&#8217;t finish his cross-country cycling trip&#8230;at least, not this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}