{"id":637,"date":"2006-05-17T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=637"},"modified":"2006-05-17T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T05:58:00","slug":"may-17th-ride-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/may-17th-ride-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"May 17th &#8211; Ride Of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/media\/20060522-cup_bike.gif\" width=\"494\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Courier Cup Bike - http:\/\/www.courier-cup.org\/\" title=\"Courier Cup Bike - http:\/\/www.courier-cup.org\/\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2003, Chris Phelan organised the first Ride Of Silence in Dallas after endurance cyclist Larry Schwartz was hit by the mirror of a passing bus and was killed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ride Of Silence is a free ride that asks its cyclists to ride no faster than 18kph and remain silent during the ride. There is no brochure, no sponsors, no registration fees and no t-shirt. The ride aims to raise the awareness of motorists, police and city officials that cyclists have a legal right to the public roadways. The ride is also a chance to show respect for those who have been killed or injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m yet to get back on the bike so I missed this ride but I&#8217;m posting about it because I think it&#8217;s a top idea. Consider it an ad for next year&#8217;s ride. Think bike!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideofsilence.org.uk\">www.rideofsilence.org.uk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideofsilence.org\">http:\/\/www.rideofsilence.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2003, Chris Phelan organised the first Ride Of Silence in Dallas after endurance cyclist Larry Schwartz was hit by the mirror of a passing bus and was killed.&#8221; &#8220;The Ride Of Silence is a free ride that asks its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/may-17th-ride-of-silence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}