{"id":817,"date":"2008-05-23T15:42:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2008-05-23T15:42:50","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T21:42:50","slug":"ride-of-silence-beaumont-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/23\/ride-of-silence-beaumont-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride of Silence &#8211; Beaumont, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <strong><a title=\"kdfm.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kfdm.com\/onset?id=26142&amp;template=article.html\" target=\"_blank\">kfdm.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a constant battle cyclists say will only get worse without awareness.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s why bicyclists in Beaumont have made it a priority to remind drivers of cyclists rights, while remembering those who died because those rights were not recognized.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclists say this year&#8217;s ride of silence is especially important because of the increased number of bikers riding the streets due to high gasoline prices and the most recent cyclist&#8217;s death that happened only two months into this year.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s group was made up of cyclists and supporters who wore black arm bands in memory of the fallen,\u00c2\u00a0and cyclists who wore red arm bands that personally survived a run-in with a vehicle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from kfdm.com &#8220;It&#8217;s a constant battle cyclists say will only get worse without awareness.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s why bicyclists in Beaumont have made it a priority to remind drivers of cyclists rights, while remembering those who died because those rights were not <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/23\/ride-of-silence-beaumont-tx\/\"><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":[184,179],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-ride","tag-beaumont-texas","tag-ride-of-silence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-db","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}