{"id":813,"date":"2008-05-22T19:44:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T01:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2008-05-22T19:44:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T01:44:37","slug":"pedal-to-padre-dr-rose-gowen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/pedal-to-padre-dr-rose-gowen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedal to Padre &#8211; Dr. Rose Gowen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"The Brownsville Herald\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brownsvilleherald.com\/articles\/bicycle_86701___article.html\/year_people.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Brownsville Herald<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rose Gowen, Medical Correspondent, University of Texas<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few years ago the River Rockets Bicycle Club began a once a year celebration of our landscape with a bicycle ride to South Padre. The first year a handful of riders &#8220;pedaled to Padre.&#8221; Each year since then the event has grown to attract bicycle riders from all over Texas, many other states, and several parts of Mexico. On May 4, I was thrilled to ride for the second time in the Pedal to Padre.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at the starting line to find kids, teens, young adults and even senior citizens on bicycles that were hand-me-downs, shiny and new, inexpensive, and very expensive. There were even differently-abled riders on adaptive bicycles. As I rode towards the island, the landscape I grew up around reached out to share life and community spirit with each and every rider. As a group we shared an active experience through a beautiful part of the world in our very own backyard.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brownsville Herald Dr. Rose Gowen, Medical Correspondent, University of Texas &#8220;A few years ago the River Rockets Bicycle Club began a once a year celebration of our landscape with a bicycle ride to South Padre. The first year a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/pedal-to-padre-dr-rose-gowen\/\"><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":[22,19],"tags":[135,177,178,176],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","category-commentary","tag-bike-ride","tag-padre-island","tag-pedal-to-padre","tag-river-rockets-bicycle-club"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-d7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}