{"id":483,"date":"2026-04-05T22:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:31:02","slug":"electric-bike-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/05\/electric-bike-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Bike Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am somewhat saddened by the fact that an electric bike might very well be a fool&#8217;s errand. I was thinking that it would be a way for me to save money and have some very basic transportation. Yeah, not so much &#8230;. It&#8217;s back to the drawing board like so many things in life. I continue to be very frustrated by life and the lack of progress I am making in it. Let&#8217;s just say I am frustrated and angry. Things feel pretty hopeless now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I work hard and have little to nothing to show for my efforts. This makes me very sad and cynical. I know the key to some control and independence is in being a small business owner. I&#8217;ve made frustratingly little progress in that direction. I know I need a damn website and I need it sooner than later. Given I am struggling so badly, I am going to use a page builder with WordPress. I don&#8217;t really want to give Elementor the money but I need a site and I needed it yesterday. I can use it as a stop gap measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I&#8217;ll feel better for using Elementor if it produces something that would be good for a minimally viable launch as I am making 0 progress in that direction. I feel like my entire life has been a series of follies.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am somewhat saddened by the fact that an electric bike might very well be a fool&#8217;s errand. I was thinking that it would be a way for me to save money and have some very basic transportation. Yeah, not so much &#8230;. It&#8217;s back to the drawing board like so many things in life. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}