{"id":149250415,"date":"2009-09-24T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T10:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=149250415"},"modified":"2009-09-24T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T10:26:55","slug":"british-kids-would-rather-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=149250415","title":{"rendered":"British kids would rather cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathon Harker Sep 22 2009, 10:08am<br \/>\nHalfords sees 22 per cent year-on-year rise in children\u2019s bike sales; Chain launches kid\u2019s-specific website<br \/>\nA Halfords-commissioned survey has found that almost three quarters (74 per cent) of British kids would like to cycle more with their families, despite 84 per cent of children spending most family time watching TV.<br \/>\nThe TNS-conducted survey comes after the national retailer has announced a 22 per cent increase in the sales of children\u2019s bikes over Christmas, compared year-on-year with 2007.<br \/>\nThe report also found that almost all (95 per cent) of the children surveyed would rather be more fit and healthy, but do not exercise with their family as much as they would like to.<br \/>\nCycling was the preferred means of keeping fit amongst the children, with 74 per cent preferring cycling over walking, running or playing team games.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikebiz.com\/news\/31165\/British-kids-would-rather-cycle\">https:\/\/www.bikebiz.com\/news\/31165\/British-kids-would-rather-cycle<\/a>oldId.20090924102655791<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathon Harker Sep 22 2009, 10:08am Halfords sees 22 per cent year-on-year rise in children\u2019s bike sales; Chain launches kid\u2019s-specific website A Halfords-commissioned survey has found that almost three quarters (74 per cent) of British kids would like to cycle more with their families, despite 84 per cent of children spending most family time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=149250415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;British kids would rather cycle&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149250415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149250415","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=149250415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149250415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149250415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149250415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149250415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}