{"id":197301660,"date":"2011-04-03T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197301660"},"modified":"2011-04-03T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T14:01:00","slug":"how-women-rode-the-bicycle-into-the-future-slideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197301660","title":{"rendered":"How women rode the bicycle into the future [SLIDESHOW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SARAH GOODYEAR &#8211; Grist<\/p>\n<p>How important was the bicycle in changing the role of women<br \/>\nin the world? Consider these words from <em>Munsey&#8217;s<br \/>\nMagazine<\/em> in 1896:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To men, the bicycle in the<br \/>\nbeginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of<br \/>\ndevices they knew in their work and play.<\/p>\n<p>To women, it was a steed upon which<br \/>\nthey rode into a new world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find that quotation, along with tons of fascinating<br \/>\ntidbits about the early history of women and bicycling, in Sue Macy&#8217;s new book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/9781426307614?&amp;PID=25450\"><em>Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle<br \/>\nto Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a<br \/>\nfreewheeling and fun tour of the surprisingly powerful effect bicycles had on a<br \/>\nwomen&#8217;s position in society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Take a look at a few of the images from the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grist.org\/biking\/2011-03-24-how-women-rode-the-bicycle-into-the-future-slideshow\/P1\">Click for the slideshow.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SARAH GOODYEAR &#8211; Grist How important was the bicycle in changing the role of women in the world? Consider these words from Munsey&#8217;s Magazine in 1896: To men, the bicycle in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they knew in their work and play. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=197301660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How women rode the bicycle into the future [SLIDESHOW]&#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-197301660","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\/197301660","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=197301660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197301660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197301660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197301660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197301660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}