{"id":238,"date":"2005-02-27T23:52:31","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T23:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=238"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:03:55","slug":"_nary_a_hair_wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/_nary_a_hair_wh\/","title":{"rendered":"Nary a Hair: Why Cyclists Shave Their Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Road Rash: less painful when sliding on pavement during a crash (similar to carpet burn)<\/li>\n<li>Aerodynamics: less wind resistance<\/li>\n<li>Sanitation: hairs hold dirt and debris that can get into wounds; hairs also make changing bandages more difficult<\/li>\n<li>Massage: easier for a masseuse to work muscles<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetics: more muscle definition, smoother and faster look<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Some of these are more tounge-in-cheek than others, at least for me. Guess which one is the most important reason.<br \/>\n<em>Also posted this at <a href=\"http:\/\/heardsaid.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/nary-hair-why-cyclists-shave-their.html\">HeardSaid<\/a>, a blog for discussing plausible facts and trivia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male cyclists&#8211;road racers in particular&#8211;have shaved the hair from their legs for decades. The following are the reasons I&#8217;ve heard of, and justified to myself and others, why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}