{"id":574,"date":"2007-10-04T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T17:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/574"},"modified":"2007-10-04T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T17:11:23","slug":"cycling-in-the-hill-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/cycling-in-the-hill-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling in the Hill Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stories.dailytimes.com\/story.lasso?ewcd=d0441756524a2790\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Times.com<\/a><\/strong> (Hill Country newspaper)<\/p>\n<p>By Jeff Wright The Daily Times, Published October  4, 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bicyclists and the Hill Country have had a love affair for years. It&rsquo;s not only the alternating, seldom boring landscape &mdash; &ldquo;up and down&rdquo; in the words of one cyclist &mdash; but the coming together of old friends and the chance to make new ones as part of group rides organized during the fall and spring.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ingram resident Norman Ford, author of &ldquo;Bicycle Tours in the Texas Hill Country &amp; West Texas,&rdquo; Kerr and Gillespie counties are ideal for bicycle riding, &ldquo;because they have virtually a labyrinth of narrow country roads, all paved, with very low traffic count. And there&rsquo;s almost no trucks on them and very few cars &#8230; that&rsquo;s why I live here, because of the great cycling,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Times.com (Hill Country newspaper) By Jeff Wright The Daily Times, Published October 4, 2007 &nbsp; Bicyclists and the Hill Country have had a love affair for years. It&rsquo;s not only the alternating, seldom boring landscape &mdash; &ldquo;up <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/cycling-in-the-hill-country\/\"><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":[14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-rides"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-9g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}