{"id":15,"date":"2008-11-29T17:30:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/2008-11-29\/segway"},"modified":"2008-11-29T17:30:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T22:30:45","slug":"segway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/29\/segway\/","title":{"rendered":"Segway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a chance to ride a Segway.<\/p>\n<p>We spent most of Saturday at the <a href=http:\/\/www.sciworks.org\/>SciWorks<\/a> museum in Winston-Salem.  It&#8217;s a pretty cool museum, complete with a planetarium, animal exhibits, and lots of hands-on science exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>While we were milling around, I ran into a guy who looked a little familiar&#8230; it was Carl Weston, who used to live down the street from me when I was a kid.  He was working at SciWorks, and he was showing people how to ride the Segway.  It was a little awkward and slow to get started, but not too hard.  I even convinced Foong to take a spin.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I remember visiting this place about 30 years ago, back when it was called the &#8220;Nature Science Center&#8221;.  Some of the original exhibits are still there, including the <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foucault's_pendulum>Foucault pendulum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a chance to ride a Segway. We spent most of Saturday at the SciWorks museum in Winston-Salem. It&#8217;s a pretty cool museum, complete with a planetarium, animal exhibits, and lots of hands-on science exhibits. While we were milling around, I ran into a guy who looked a little familiar&#8230; it was Carl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}