{"id":964,"date":"2008-08-02T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2008-08-02T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T22:05:56","slug":"jim-quinn-promoter-of-the-texas-time-trial-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/02\/jim-quinn-promoter-of-the-texas-time-trial-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Quinn: Promoter of the Texas Time Trial Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <strong><a title=\"The Houston Chronicle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/cycling\/5916523.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Houston Chronicle Cycling Notebook<\/a><\/strong> (link to the full story)<\/p>\n<p>by Dale Robertson<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;To say that Quinn fell hard for cycling is something of an understatement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p id=\"id2442468\" class=\"Text-TextBodyRagRight HoustonText\">&#8230;For Quinn, a tax accountant by day, long leisurely rides eventually gave way to all-out racing. He wound up promoting the Texas Time Trial because: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I got tired of driving up to Dallas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He found the course out of Pattison to be perfect because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mostly flat, so he submitted his proposal and won out.<\/p>\n<p id=\"id2442016\" class=\"Text-TextBodyRagRight HoustonText\">This is the fifth time the state championships have been held there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Houston Chronicle Cycling Notebook (link to the full story) by Dale Robertson &#8230;To say that Quinn fell hard for cycling is something of an understatement&#8230; &#8230;For Quinn, a tax accountant by day, long leisurely rides eventually gave way <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/02\/jim-quinn-promoter-of-the-texas-time-trial-championships\/\"><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":[63],"tags":[351,352,350],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-race","tag-jim-quinn","tag-pattison-texas","tag-texas-time-trial-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-fy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}