{"id":179227234,"date":"2010-09-06T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T09:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=179227234"},"modified":"2010-09-06T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T09:20:34","slug":"i-love-riding-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=179227234","title":{"rendered":"I Love Riding in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAME: Mitch Ryan<br \/>\n      <\/strong><strong>LOCATION: Baltimore, MD<br \/>\n      <\/strong><strong>OCCUPATION: Server\/Student\/Retail Slave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do you live and what\u2019s it like riding in your city?<br \/>\n      <\/strong>I proudly live in downtown Baltimore, MD. Riding around here is truly unique because of the bike culture. We do everything from gigantic mass rides to some pretty intense allycats. Baltimore is a fairly hilly city with almost no bike lanes so it\u2019s a workout too! Did I mention it\u2019s beautiful here? Being the Quirky City, it\u2019s best viewed by bike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your favorite city to ride in, and why?<br \/>\n      <\/strong>As clich\u00e9 as it may sound, riding through Times Square, NYC was my favorite experience. It was at 2 AM and the lights made it seem like daylight. Flying through streets jammed packed with taxis is purely exhilarating. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you love riding in the city?<br \/>\n      <\/strong>I love riding downtown because of the focus it requires. Anything else that may be weighing on you has to be forgotten about as you dodge obstacles and maintain your speed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or just say whatever you want about riding in the city\u2026<br \/>\n      <\/strong>Baltimore is hot y\u2019all. Watch out!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanvelo.org\/issue21\/p16-17.html\">https:\/\/www.urbanvelo.org\/issue21\/p16-17.html<\/a>oldId.20100906092034932<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAME: Mitch Ryan LOCATION: Baltimore, MD OCCUPATION: Server\/Student\/Retail Slave Where do you live and what\u2019s it like riding in your city? I proudly live in downtown Baltimore, MD. Riding around here is truly unique because of the bike culture. We do everything from gigantic mass rides to some pretty intense allycats. Baltimore is a fairly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=179227234\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Love Riding in the City&#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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179227234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179227234","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=179227234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179227234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179227234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179227234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179227234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}