{"id":688,"date":"2008-02-08T23:41:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T05:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/688"},"modified":"2008-02-08T23:41:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T05:41:02","slug":"fading-vision-doesnt-diminish-cyclists-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/fading-vision-doesnt-diminish-cyclists-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fading vision doesn&#8217;t diminish cyclist&#8217;s passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from austin360.com <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/recreation\/content\/recreation\/stories\/2008\/02\/0211fitcity.html\" target=\"_blank\">(link to full article)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"mailto:pleblanc@statesman.com\">Pamela LeBlanc<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"source\">AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">Friday, February 08, 2008<\/span>          \t\t                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        <!--begintext--><\/p>\n<p>Ron Burzese&#8217;s retinas are failing. He walks with a white cane. But chances are he&#8217;d easily whip you in a bike race.<\/p>\n<p>As the &quot;stoker&quot; in the rear seat of a tandem bike, Burzese, who has just 10 percent of his vision, chews up miles of pavement every week. He pedals with a partner, cruising around town for fun and exercise, and cranks it up in competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from austin360.com (link to full article) By Pamela LeBlanc AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, February 08, 2008 Ron Burzese&#8217;s retinas are failing. He walks with a white cane. But chances are he&#8217;d easily whip you in a bike race. As the &quot;stoker&quot; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/fading-vision-doesnt-diminish-cyclists-passion\/\"><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":[18,14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-rides"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-b6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}