{"id":31,"date":"2009-03-11T01:22:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T08:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2022-04-24T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T01:58:11","slug":"qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I filmed a quick Q&amp;A session a few days ago where I talked about why I am taking my trip, some of my main inspirations, and also why I got this Domain Name for my website.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9VUEM5M4wuM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I want to add a little color to some of these responses.<\/p>\n<p>So on the &#8216;why am I doing this?&#8217; part, I feel like I overemphasized the introspection part and underemphasized the learning about people part. They are probably equally weighted in my brain. I like throwing people out of their comfort zone and seeing how they react. Hence me having a mohawk for a significant amount of time three times in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my list of the major inspirations I had:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyguyonabike.com\/doc\/longwayhome\">Tzuo Hann Law<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/scotland\/outdoors\/pedalling_around\/\">A bit about Mark Beaumont<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other blogs which sucked me in:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyguyonabike.com\/doc\/bikearthride\">BikEarth<\/a> &#8211; I didn&#8217;t really like the political overtones, and I remember being disappointed when it ended early, but definitely one of the blogs I followed the closest nevertheless. Something about it just drew me in.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyguyonabike.com\/doc\/LHT\">Long Haul Trucking<\/a> &#8211; Another blog that sucked me in.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyguyonabike.com\/doc\/apedaadmlc\">Pete Kinnecom<\/a> &#8211; A short but very entertaining read. Very funny.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyguyonabike.com\/doc\/bikingbarkleys\">Biking Barkley&#8217;s<\/a> &#8211; About a newlywed couple taking a several year bike tour. They have an amazing camera and they show it off frequently. Really really gorgeous pictures.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyguyonabike.com\/doc\/1179\">Vas&#8217; Odyssey<\/a> &#8211; An interesting blog more in the spirit of On the Road (one of my favorites) than the others. Tons of really crazy stories.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I filmed a quick Q&amp;A session a few days ago where I talked about why I am taking my trip, some of my main inspirations, and also why I got this Domain Name for my website. I want to add a little color to some of these responses. So on the &#8216;why am I doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","category-pre-trip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sokaz-qa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}