{"id":857,"date":"2008-06-16T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2008-06-16T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T04:25:08","slug":"riding-from-wichita-falls-to-chicago-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/16\/riding-from-wichita-falls-to-chicago-for-a-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding from Wichita Falls to Chicago for a Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from timesrecordnews.com<\/p>\n<p>by Sarah Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Patrick McBride is hoping the Midwest corn crop is unseasonably good next summer. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when McBride and two friends will ride their bikes about 1,200 miles from Wichita Falls to Chicago to raise money for an orphanage project in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The tall corn stalks stop the wind from coming across the road,\u00e2\u20ac? McBride said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"timesrecord.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/news\/2008\/jun\/16\/riding-reason\/\" target=\"_blank\">link to the rest of the story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from timesrecordnews.com by Sarah Johnson Patrick McBride is hoping the Midwest corn crop is unseasonably good next summer. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when McBride and two friends will ride their bikes about 1,200 miles from Wichita Falls to Chicago to raise money for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/16\/riding-from-wichita-falls-to-chicago-for-a-reason\/\"><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":[243,244,71],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-ride","tag-chicago","tag-nigeria","tag-wichita-falls-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-dP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}