{"id":465,"date":"2007-08-22T17:10:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/22\/wabas-50-states-ride-this-saturday\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T17:10:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T21:10:59","slug":"wabas-50-states-ride-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/22\/wabas-50-states-ride-this-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"WABA&#8217;s 50 States Ride this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waba.org\">Washington Area Bicyclist Association<\/a> is running it&#8217;s annual (well, it tries to be annual . . .) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waba.org\/events\/2007\/50statesride.php\">50 States Ride<\/a> this Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 This ride will help me accomplish a goal I&#8217;ve had since I moved here 10 (!) years ago: it covers all 50 state streets in all 8 wards of the District.\u00c2\u00a0 According to WABA, it&#8217;s a 60+ mile ride.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Meet at the WABA offices (see below) at 7:30 am with the ride leaving at 8:00 am.<\/p>\n<p>If that seems a bit much for you, but the idea sounds cool, consider WABA&#8217;s alternative offering:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]ry our shorter 15 mile 13 Original Colonies Tour. 13 Original Colonies Tour goes on each of the avenues named for one of the 13 original states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both rides will begin across the street from the WABA offices at 1753 Connecticut Avenue NW (the corner of S street and Connecticut Avenue NW). \u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be the guy in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelin.com\/corporate\/front\/templates\/affich.jsp?codeRubrique=99&amp;lang=EN\">Bibendum<\/a> jersey on the Gary Fisher Sugar (which will look pretty silly with it&#8217;s Conti T&amp;C&#8217;s, but it&#8217;s for a higher purpose, I keep telling myself . . .).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Area Bicyclist Association is running it&#8217;s annual (well, it tries to be annual . . .) 50 States Ride this Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 This ride will help me accomplish a goal I&#8217;ve had since I moved here 10 (!) years ago: it covers all 50 state streets in all 8 wards of the District.\u00c2\u00a0 According [&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-465","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\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}