{"id":3463,"date":"2014-10-26T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T01:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2014-12-31T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:28:00","slug":"tour-de-bronx-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/tour-de-bronx-5\/","title":{"rendered":"tour de bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 mile route plus<br \/>\n4 miles back to vehicle <\/p>\n<p>love this tour &#8211; it&#8217;s free, so everybody joins<br \/>\ngreat variety of people and machines <\/p>\n<p>stop-and-go in many ways<br \/>\nstopped vehicles everywhere waiting for cyclists to pass<br \/>\nstopped cyclists at bottlenecks getting on or off trails<br \/>\nan exorbitant number of cyclists stopped due to breakdown or accident<\/p>\n<p>contemplating the experience, privilege, and just plain luck that allows me to ride my bicycle in New York City<\/p>\n<p>contemplating pleasant movements: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nthe dog-at-hydrant leg lift when mounting, unmounting, remounting<\/li>\n<li>the initial push off, extremely pleasant gliding if you&#8217;re in the right gear<\/li>\n<li>the collaboration of upper body pulling and lower body pushing to get up a sudden hill<\/li>\n<li>calibrating speed carefully, fast enough to remain upright and slow enough to avoid hitting the bicycle ahead of me<\/li>\n<li>delicately touching fingers of two little kids who were reaching out for high fives<\/li>\n<li>the utter exhilaration of leaning into a corner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>contemplating whether I could possibly memorize these movements enough now that I won&#8217;t miss them unbearably when I can&#8217;t bicycle any more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 mile route plus 4 miles back to vehicle love this tour &#8211; it&#8217;s free, so everybody joins great variety of people and machines stop-and-go in many ways stopped vehicles everywhere waiting for cyclists&#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-3463","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\/3463","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=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}