{"id":2837,"date":"2009-08-22T23:57:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T04:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2009-08-22T23:57:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T04:57:23","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/22\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for August 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/martyskates.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/22\/cyclelog-082209\/\" href=\"http:\/\/martyskates.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/22\/cyclelog-082209\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>cyclelog 08\/22\/09 \u00c2\u00ab marty skates<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby fierybones<br \/>\nIn my teens and early 20&#8217;s I rode my bicycle everywhere. I was an every-day cycler and it was a big part of my life. More recently, I&#8217;ve hardly ridden at all except with my kids on short rides. Honestly, it&#8217;s been quite a few years since I&#8217; ve ridden more than &#8230; There&#8217;s a race in Greenville, Texas next month and my buddy Mark and I are planning to enter if we can get in enough miles between now and then. Or\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I could skate it! We&#8217;ll see what happens. 23 miles \/ 37 km YTD &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/opinion\/content\/editorial\/stories\/2009\/08\/23\/0823herman_edit.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Riding for the Rise School<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Austin American-Statesman<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s where Austin businessman Steve Hicks&#8217; modest plan comes in: Get 50 people to join him in the March 6-20 Rise Across Texas Challenge , an 850-mile &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/news\/2009\/aug\/21\/nary-a-couch-potato-to-be-seen\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/news\/2009\/aug\/21\/nary-a-couch-potato-to-be-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Our opinion: Nary a couch potato to be seen<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Times Record News<br \/>\nThousands of cyclists will attempt \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and many will succeed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in riding 100 miles in the notorious North Texas heat.<br \/>\nHHH organizers are pondering a number of reasons why registration could be up this year, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cyclelog 08\/22\/09 \u00c2\u00ab marty skates by fierybones In my teens and early 20&#8217;s I rode my bicycle everywhere. I was an every-day cycler and it was a big part of my life. More recently, I&#8217;ve hardly ridden at all except <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/22\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-22nd\/\"><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-2837","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-JL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","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=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}