{"id":390,"date":"2007-04-22T18:12:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2007-04-22T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:12:44","slug":"ride-of-silence-plans-fifth-annual-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/22\/ride-of-silence-plans-fifth-annual-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride of Silence plans fifth annual memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news.php?id=news\/2007\/apr07\/apr22news\" target=\"_blank\">from cyclingnews.com\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ride of Silence, a grass-roots, global network of group rides held          simultaneously and in complete silence in honour of cyclists injured or          killed by motorists, has announced the date and time for the 2007 edition.          Spokesperson Mark Hagar says that &#8220;the 2007 Ride of Silence will          start globally on Wed. May 16th, at 7:00 PM. Rides in the southern hemisphere          will take place on Sat. May 19th at 10 AM, for rider safety, and greater          visibility to the public and media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ride of Silence memorial was started after endurance cyclist Larry          Schwartz was struck and killed by a passing bus while cycling outside          of Dallas in 2003. His good friend &amp; coach Chris Phelan organized          a memorial ride in Dallas on May 18th, titled the Ride of Silence, a slow          paced silent 12 mile ride to honour\/remember his friend. In just a 10 day          period, via email and word of mouth, over 1,000 cyclists attended. Chris          thought he had closure.<\/p>\n<p>Word spread and in 2004, Rides of Silence took place on May 18th at 7:00          PM in 50 cities in the U.S. and Canada spreading to over 250 cities worldwide          in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>There are no fees to attend Rides of Silemce. For more information, visit          the Ride of Silence Web site at http:\/\/www.rideofsilence.org\/locations-international.php.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from cyclingnews.com\u00c2\u00a0 The Ride of Silence, a grass-roots, global network of group rides held simultaneously and in complete silence in honour of cyclists injured or killed by motorists, has announced the date and time for the 2007 edition. Spokesperson Mark <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/22\/ride-of-silence-plans-fifth-annual-memorial\/\"><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":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-ride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-6i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}