{"id":2606,"date":"2009-07-12T22:20:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T04:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2009-07-12T22:20:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T04:20:58","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for July 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/txurbanmxu.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/fort-worth-becoming-biking-mecca.html\" href=\"http:\/\/txurbanmxu.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/fort-worth-becoming-biking-mecca.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Texas Urban Mixed Use Projects: Fort Worth Becoming a Biking Mecca<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby TXUrbanMXU<br \/>\nLook at the cities that have the highest bicycle commute rates in the country: Portland (wet), Minneapolis (cold), Seattle (wet), and Tucson (hot). Certainly there are many cyclists who won&#8217;t bike for transportation purposes when it&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/googlemapsbikethere.org\/2009\/07\/12\/ride-the-city-adds-austin\/\" href=\"http:\/\/googlemapsbikethere.org\/2009\/07\/12\/ride-the-city-adds-austin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google Maps &#8216;Bike There&#8217; | Ride The City Adds Austin<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Peter Smith<br \/>\nRide the City, who originally provided mapping directions in New York City, followed by Chicago, now provide bike directions for Austin \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that bike-crazy town smack dab in the middle of Texas: Even if you haven&#8217;t been there, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The next two days are rest days from the TdF on TV for me since I do not watch until the evening. I have been watching each stage on a delayed basis thanks to my DVR recording of the live broadcast. On the Versus forums some people are complaining about the number of commercials. I think they are forgetting how the coverage gets on TV. The DVR has a 1 minute skip button so commercials breeze by quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Urban Mixed Use Projects: Fort Worth Becoming a Biking Mecca by TXUrbanMXU Look at the cities that have the highest bicycle commute rates in the country: Portland (wet), Minneapolis (cold), Seattle (wet), and Tucson (hot). Certainly there are many <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-12th\/\"><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":[660],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-G2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}