{"id":2556,"date":"2009-02-27T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2009-02-27T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T16:49:56","slug":"reminder-vasa-ride-in-dc-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/27\/reminder-vasa-ride-in-dc-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: VASA Ride in DC on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2009\/01\/waba-spring-events.html\">Sunday, March 1st, will bring us DC&#8217;s third VASA Ride<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 They had 200 riders in 2007, and around 300 in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 Would love to see that increase substantially this year.\u00c2\u00a0 And with snow and cold predicted for Sunday, who could possibly want to stay home?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, right &#8211; what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the VASA Ride?\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mass ride (of varying lengths) sponsored by the Embassy of Sweden to celebrate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vasaloppet.se\/\">Vasaloppet<\/a>, a Swedish ski race.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Last year we rode from the Embassy up MacArthur Boulevard to Cabin John and back.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a race &#8211; just a fun group ride.\u00c2\u00a0 The best part?\u00c2\u00a0 The free hot blueberry soup served by the Embassy at the end.\u00c2\u00a0 If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the DC area, I hope you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll check it out.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 More info, including start times and (optional) registration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waba.org\/events\/vasaride.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, March 1st, will bring us DC&#8217;s third VASA Ride.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 They had 200 riders in 2007, and around 300 in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 Would love to see that increase substantially this year.\u00c2\u00a0 And with snow and cold predicted for Sunday, who could possibly want to stay home? Oh, right &#8211; what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the VASA Ride?\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mass [&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":[501,499,85,84,83,86],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc","tag-cycling","tag-dc","tag-ride","tag-sweden","tag-vasa","tag-waba"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}