{"id":661,"date":"2008-01-25T23:22:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T05:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/661"},"modified":"2008-01-25T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T05:22:50","slug":"bike-tour-fights-deadly-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/bike-tour-fights-deadly-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike tour fights deadly disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Texan <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.dailytexanonline.com\/media\/storage\/paper410\/news\/2008\/01\/25\/University\/Bike-Tour.Fights.Deadly.Disease-3168828.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">(full article link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It does not take a star to bike for a cure. UT students do it every year.<\/p>\n<p>The Tour de Cure, a bike ride from San Antonio to Austin, aims to raise money to cure diabetes &#8211; the fifth deadliest disease in America. UT kinesiology senior Kelly Blackstone does not have diabetes, but said she is invested in finding a cure and hopes other students are too. The ride is sponsored by the American Diabetes Association, and parallels the Multiple Sclerosis 150, a bike ride from Houston to Austin.<\/p>\n<p>The central Texas Tour de Cure is in its sixth year and raised $540,000 in 2007, said Chip Rayburn, Tour de Cure event chair. About 1,100 riders participated last year, but Rayburn said he is hopeful Blackstone&#8217;s involvement will attract more student participation. Blackstone is a student intern for the American Diabetes Association this semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Texan (full article link) It does not take a star to bike for a cure. UT students do it every year. The Tour de Cure, a bike ride from San Antonio to Austin, aims to raise money <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/bike-tour-fights-deadly-disease\/\"><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-661","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-aF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}