{"id":1044,"date":"2017-08-16T00:02:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?page_id=1044"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:36:25","slug":"lovely-bikes-i-have-known-the-little-green-trike","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/true-life\/66-71\/lovely-bikes-i-have-known-the-little-green-trike\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Bikes I Have Known: The Little Green Trike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two and three wheeled bicycles were my main mode of transportation, escape, and income during my first two decades.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a story about a lovely bike I have known\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Green Tricycle (1971)<\/h2>\n
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My little green trike was sort of like this. In other words, Epic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I was going into Grade 1, we lived with my maternal grandparents, in their house in Victoria.<\/p>\n

My birthday was coming up, and I had discovered this large cardboard box in the living-room. I asked my grandmother what was in it, and if it was for me. She looked at the box, reached inside and pulled out a long curved piece of green tubing that had little wheels on the end. She looked at it and then looked at me. Even then, I had a pretty good idea that it was part of a tricycle. Aha! It was obvious!<\/p>\n

\u201cIs that for me?\u201d I asked her excitedly.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,”\u00a0 she said, “it\u2019s for me.\u201d She then proceeded to push it back and forth on the carpet like a toy vacuum cleaner. \u201cSee? It\u2019s for me.\u201d Totally straight-faced.<\/p>\n

\u201cNooo!!\u201d I cried out. I was in on the joke, but still, it seemed so unfair! (Of course it’s hysterically funny to me now, when I look back on it.)<\/p>\n

Of course it was a lovely forest green tricycle they’d bought just for me! I was so happy when it was finally given to me, and I booted all around Poppy’s block on that little thing.<\/p>\n

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Two and three wheeled bicycles were my main mode of transportation, escape, and income during my first two decades. Here\u2019s a story about a lovely bike I have known\u2026 The Green Tricycle (1971) When I was going into Grade 1, we lived with my maternal grandparents, in their house in Victoria. My birthday was coming … Continue reading Lovely Bikes I Have Known: The Little Green Trike<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1044","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044\/revisions\/1537"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}