{"id":1417,"date":"2008-12-20T22:15:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T04:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2008-12-20T22:15:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T04:15:01","slug":"bicycles-bring-cheer-to-austin-texas-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/20\/bicycles-bring-cheer-to-austin-texas-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycles bring cheer to Austin Texas children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"kxan.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/bicycles_bring_cheer_to_texas_children\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>from kxan.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Jackie Vega<\/p>\n<p>The idea of putting bicycles in the hands of Texas children all started with the creation of a T-shirt logo consisting of a bunch of bike parts, which later sparked the idea of promoting the goodness of cycling. It is because of this idea that 90 children in Austin received a bicycle early Saturday morning in recognition for the sacrifice their parents make in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agd.state.tx.us\/rr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas National Guard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/bikesfgs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bikes for Goodness Sake<\/a> coordinated its efforts and donated 533 bikes to children of troops across Texas, landing bikes in the hands of 90 local children of deploying troops. With the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bucksbikes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bucks Bikes<\/a> , troops in uniform were able to take their children to receive bikes, helmets and a safety lesson Saturday morning. It is something that means a lot to the children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from kxan.com by Jackie Vega The idea of putting bicycles in the hands of Texas children all started with the creation of a T-shirt logo consisting of a bunch of bike parts, which later sparked the idea of promoting the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/20\/bicycles-bring-cheer-to-austin-texas-children\/\"><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":[14],"tags":[50,535,537],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-texas","tag-bikes-for-goodness-sake","tag-texas-national-guard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-mR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","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=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}