{"id":1135,"date":"2008-10-02T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T02:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2008-10-02T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T02:13:08","slug":"biketexas-kids-kup-at-palo-duro-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/biketexas-kids-kup-at-palo-duro-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"BikeTexas Kids Kup at Palo Duro Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from biketexas.org<\/p>\n<p>by BikeTexas Field Instructor Durwood Mayfield<\/p>\n<p>As Saturday, September 27 dawned bright and crisp, temperatures hovering near 50 degrees, my granddaughter Brooke and I found ourselves heading north from Lubbock toward Palo Duro Canyon State Park. This is undoubtedly one of the most striking of all the state parks in Texas, a rare beauty on the flat plains of the northern panhandle, with stunning vistas and stark contrasts to the surrounding country. But we aren&#8217;t going just to see the grandeur of the Grand Canyon of Texas; we are going to participate in the future of bicycling in Texas &#8211; the BikeTexas Kids Kup mountain bike race, one race of the Shimano Youth Series mountain bike races, sponsored by BikeTexas, Shimano and Cliff Bars.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"biketexas.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biketexas.org\/content\/view\/1076\/71\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>link to the complete article at biketexas.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from biketexas.org by BikeTexas Field Instructor Durwood Mayfield As Saturday, September 27 dawned bright and crisp, temperatures hovering near 50 degrees, my granddaughter Brooke and I found ourselves heading north from Lubbock toward Palo Duro Canyon State Park. This is <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/biketexas-kids-kup-at-palo-duro-canyon\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138],"tags":[381,422],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountain-bike","tag-biketexas-kids-kup","tag-palo-duro-canyon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-ij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}