{"id":1285,"date":"2008-09-18T11:54:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2008-09-18T11:54:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T15:54:24","slug":"this-weekend-free-guided-washington-walks-and-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/18\/this-weekend-free-guided-washington-walks-and-rides\/","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend: Free Guided Washington Walks (and Rides!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the weekend of DC&#8217;s twice yearly &#8220;WalkingTown&#8221; program: &#8220;<span class=\"text\">Join Cultural Tourism DC for\u00c2\u00a0more than 80 free walking tours (and a few bike tours) in 18 neighborhoods across Washington, DC.&#8221;<\/span> I&#8217;ve done these before, and they&#8217;ve been well worth my time.\u00c2\u00a0 They typically concentrate on a neighborhood&#8217;s history, or follow a theme (Civil War cemeteries, public works, new development plans, etc.).\u00c2\u00a0 Most are just walkup, but a few require reservations.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got a couple free hours this weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturaltourismdc.org\/calendar2532\/calendar_show.htm?doc_id=45055\">take a look at the schedule<\/a> and see if something catches your fancy (for cyclists, I particularly recommend the Anacostia\/Riverwalk ride).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the weekend of DC&#8217;s twice yearly &#8220;WalkingTown&#8221; program: &#8220;Join Cultural Tourism DC for\u00c2\u00a0more than 80 free walking tours (and a few bike tours) in 18 neighborhoods across Washington, DC.&#8221; I&#8217;ve done these before, and they&#8217;ve been well worth my time.\u00c2\u00a0 They typically concentrate on a neighborhood&#8217;s history, or follow a theme (Civil War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}