{"id":176211739,"date":"2010-08-02T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176211739"},"modified":"2010-08-02T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T11:42:19","slug":"coast-to-coast-for-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176211739","title":{"rendered":"Coast to coast for a cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven years ago, Mark Koltz was 260 lbs and had just been diagnosed with type-two diabetes and high blood pressure.<br \/>\n\u201cThat was my wake-up call,\u201d said Koltz, who resides just outside of Baltimore, Maryland.<br \/>\nKoltz picked up a bicycle, lost 60 lbs and has since taken his bike more than 72,000 km. By August, he\u2019ll have more than 77,000 km under his belt.<br \/>\nKoltz is participating in America By Bicycle\u2019s Across America North Ride, a group ride that sees 50 cyclists ride almost 6,000 km across the northern U.S. and southern Canada over 50 days.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brantnews.com\/news.cfm?page=news&amp;section=read&amp;articleId=8409\">https:\/\/www.brantnews.com\/news.cfm?page=news&amp;section=read&amp;articleId=8409<\/a>oldId.20100802114219190<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven years ago, Mark Koltz was 260 lbs and had just been diagnosed with type-two diabetes and high blood pressure. \u201cThat was my wake-up call,\u201d said Koltz, who resides just outside of Baltimore, Maryland. Koltz picked up a bicycle, lost 60 lbs and has since taken his bike more than 72,000 km. By August, he\u2019ll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=176211739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coast to coast for a cause&#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-176211739","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\/176211739","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=176211739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176211739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176211739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176211739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176211739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}