{"id":1023,"date":"2008-05-11T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:48","slug":"a-rusty-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"A Rusty Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_EED4nsY1-TQ\/SCb2BwQw4YI\/AAAAAAAAAGI\/TJnYhpnHnOo\/s1600-h\/IMG_0123.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_EED4nsY1-TQ\/SCb2BwQw4YI\/AAAAAAAAAGI\/TJnYhpnHnOo\/s160\/IMG_0123.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>For those of you who are new to this page, this photo was taken on the American Tobacco Trail near Apex, NC.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening I finally took the plunge, borrowed a friend&#8217;s bike to see if I could still ride, after &#8216;countless&#8217; years, and headed to the Tobacco Trail to ride with Keith:) It&#8217;s good to know I still can do it&#8211;although wobbly:( This was a boy&#8217;s bike and I have short legs so it was a bit of a challenge. I&#8217;m not used to a bike seat either and this one was quite narrow, and that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll say on that! <br \/>In spite of those comfy issues the ride was perfect! The old train bed is basically flat trail, the weather was in the high 60&#8217;s (perfect biking temp.), and the honeysuckle and other flowering fragrances made the ride sweet:) We went over 4 miles; a good first ride for a rusty girl:) <br \/>A grand way to spend an evening:)<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;For those of you who are new to this page, this photo was taken on the American Tobacco Trail near Apex, NC. Yesterday evening I finally took the plunge, borrowed a friend&#8217;s bike to see if I could still ride, after &#8216;countless&#8217; years, and headed to the Tobacco Trail to ride with Keith:) It&#8217;s good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}