{"id":123417289,"date":"2008-11-29T10:34:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T10:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=123417289"},"modified":"2008-11-29T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T10:34:49","slug":"the-next-secretary-of-transportation-may-well-be-a-cycling-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=123417289","title":{"rendered":"The next Secretary of Transportation may well be a cycling advocate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Names rumored to be on the short list include:<\/p>\n<p>    \u2022 Representative Jim Oberstar \u2014 A Minnesota Democrat and nationally-renowned member of the Congressional Bike Caucus. Representative Oberstar chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.<br \/>\n    \u2022 Representative Earl Blumenauer \u2014 A Democrat representing Portland, Oregon, Representative Blumenauer\u2014another nationally renowned Congressional Bike Caucus member and founder of the Bike Caucus\u2014sits on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.<br \/>\n    \u2022 Representative Peter DeFazio \u2014 Another Oregon Democrat, and yet another member of the Congressional Bike Caucus, Representative DeFazio is a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.<br \/>\n    \u2022 Governor Ed Rendell \u2014 The Governor of Pennsylvania.<br \/>\n    \u2022 Jane Garvey \u2014 The head of the Federal Aviation Administration from 1997 to 2002.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/velonews.com\/article\/85441\/legally-speaking-with-bob-mionske---a-time-for-thanks\">https:\/\/velonews.com\/article\/85441\/legally-speaking-with-bob-mionske&#8212;a-time-for-thanks<\/a>oldId.20081129103449799<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Names rumored to be on the short list include: \u2022 Representative Jim Oberstar \u2014 A Minnesota Democrat and nationally-renowned member of the Congressional Bike Caucus. Representative Oberstar chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. \u2022 Representative Earl Blumenauer \u2014 A Democrat representing Portland, Oregon, Representative Blumenauer\u2014another nationally renowned Congressional Bike Caucus member and founder of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=123417289\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The next Secretary of Transportation may well be a cycling advocate.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123417289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123417289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123417289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123417289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123417289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123417289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123417289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}