{"id":251,"date":"2007-01-27T18:06:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T00:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2007-01-27T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T00:06:42","slug":"ride-of-silence-many-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/27\/ride-of-silence-many-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride of Silence &#8211; Many Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16, 2007, at 7:00 PM, the Ride of Silence\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 will begin in North America and roll across the globe. Cyclists will take to the roads in a silent procession to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured while cycling on public roadways. Although cyclists have a legal right to share the road with motorists, the motoring public often isn&#8217;t aware of these rights, and sometimes not aware of the cyclists themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Chris Phelan organized the first Ride Of Silence in Dallas after endurance cyclist Larry Schwartz was hit by  the mirror of a passing bus and was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The Ride Of Silence is a free ride. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideofsilence.org\/locations-domestic.php?s=TX#TX\" target=\"_blank\">Link to Texas ride locations.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideofsilence.org\/main.php\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rideofsilence.org\/images\/main_02.jpg?resize=164%2C192\" align=\"left\" height=\"192\" width=\"164\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16, 2007, at 7:00 PM, the Ride of Silence\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 will begin in North America and roll across the globe. Cyclists will take to the roads in a silent procession to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/27\/ride-of-silence-many-places\/\"><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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-event-calendar-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-43","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}