{"id":30,"date":"2004-05-28T17:21:25","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/blogs\/ein2\/2004\/05\/28\/swoopy-stepometers\/"},"modified":"2004-05-28T17:21:25","modified_gmt":"2004-05-28T22:21:25","slug":"swoopy-stepometers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/2004\/05\/28\/swoopy-stepometers\/","title":{"rendered":"[Swoopy Stepometers]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"here goes: Bad times made better by Happy Meals\" href=\"http:\/\/reluctantwriter.typepad.com\/heregoes\/2004\/05\/bad_times.html\">here goes: Bad times made better by Happy Meals<\/a>, it&#8217;s pointed out that the McDonald&#8217;s pedometer isn&#8217;t in fact a pedometer at all, because it only counts steps and not distance.  I suspect the Special K one is similar and I&#8217;ve heard rumours that it can count steps by itself just sitting on a counter.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nHas 10,000 steps really captured the public&#8217;s imagination?  I think many people feel like they don&#8217;t get enough exercise.  <a href=\"\/ein2\/archives\/2004\/05\/pedometer_panic_2.html\">Earlier<\/a>, I wondered if free pedometers at McDonald&#8217;s would be enough to draw people in and get them out.  Since I wrote that, I&#8217;ve learned that the promotion is also available in Canada and one of my stablest friends has already whipped out to his local McDonald&#8217;s and picked up one.  He&#8217;s talking about getting one in each of the seven colours.  He&#8217;s not alone in at least getting one.  Someone else I know discovered that it&#8217;s possible to buy the pedometers from McDonald&#8217;s in the States simply by asking for it alone and  paying out $2.20.  So, what are you waiting for?  Run, don&#8217;t walk to your nearest McDonald&#8217;s, and work off those Big Macs with your feet.  Even if you don&#8217;t go anywhere, you&#8217;ll at least know for sure how little you&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In here goes: Bad times made better by Happy Meals, it&#8217;s pointed out that the McDonald&#8217;s pedometer isn&#8217;t in fact a pedometer at all, because it only counts steps and not distance. I suspect the Special K one is similar and I&#8217;ve heard rumours that it can count steps by itself just sitting on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[240,250,271,294,298],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e1n","tag-kelloggs","tag-mcdonalds","tag-pedometers","tag-special-k","tag-stepometers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}