{"id":173463323,"date":"2010-07-01T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173463323"},"modified":"2010-07-01T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:15:23","slug":"md-pastor-pedaling-250-miles-to-benefit-camp-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173463323","title":{"rendered":"Md. pastor pedaling 250 miles to benefit camp kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) &#8212; A bicycle-pedaling pastor from western Maryland says there&#8217;s a spiritual aspect to his physical exertions.<br \/>\nThe Rev. Ed Poling of the Hagerstown Church of the Brethren is setting out Wednesday on a 250-mile bike trip to Pittsburgh.<br \/>\nPoling says that besides marveling at God&#8217;s creation, he will raise money during the trip to send more children to summer camp so they, too, can learn to love the great outdoors.<br \/>\nPoling says people can better experience God outdoors by observing wild plants and animals and thinking about their maker.<br \/>\nHe says kids who spend most of their time indoors are less inclined to take care of the Earth.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/template\/inews_wire\/wires.regional.md\/2b0ce8a2-www.foxbaltimore.com.shtml\">https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/template\/inews_wire\/wires.regional.md\/2b0ce8a2-www.foxbaltimore.com.shtml<\/a>oldId.20100701161523154<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) &#8212; A bicycle-pedaling pastor from western Maryland says there&#8217;s a spiritual aspect to his physical exertions. The Rev. Ed Poling of the Hagerstown Church of the Brethren is setting out Wednesday on a 250-mile bike trip to Pittsburgh. Poling says that besides marveling at God&#8217;s creation, he will raise money during the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173463323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Md. pastor pedaling 250 miles to benefit camp kids&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173463323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173463323","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=173463323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173463323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173463323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173463323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173463323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}