{"id":1665,"date":"2010-08-22T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2014-12-31T11:30:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:30:44","slug":"ride-over-the-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/ride-over-the-hudson\/","title":{"rendered":"ride over the hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 miles<br \/>\njust a short bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikenewyork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bike New York<\/a>&#8216;s Discover the Hudson Valley Ride<br \/>\nfrom Dutchess County Community College start<br \/>\nover the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkway.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Walkway over the Hudson<\/a>, former railroad bridge outside Poughkeepsie<br \/>\ntook shelter with six or seven other cyclists on the other side while it poured rain<br \/>\nthen scooted back over the bridge again and ended the ride soaking wet<\/p>\n<p>rain all day today<br \/>\nit makes the outdoors seem alive<\/p>\n<p>walkway soars 212 feet above the Hudson River<br \/>\nfear of heights kept me from looking down, or even much to the right or left<br \/>\nhow to do it: count pedal strokes and stare straight ahead<br \/>\nstrict discipline of mental activity being necessary to ride across that bridge<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the seen, only the seen.&#8221; (not the imagined, i.e., somehow tumbling over the side of the bridge into the river)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesstoinsight.org\/tipitaka\/kn\/ud\/ud.1.10.than.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bahiya Sutta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 miles just a short bit of Bike New York&#8216;s Discover the Hudson Valley Ride from Dutchess County Community College start over the Walkway over the Hudson, former railroad bridge outside Poughkeepsie took shelter&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","tag-cycling-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}