{"id":224888900,"date":"2012-02-16T21:08:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=224888900"},"modified":"2012-02-16T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T21:08:20","slug":"americans-work-3-84-minutes-each-day-to-pay-for-their-bicycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=224888900","title":{"rendered":"Americans Work 3.84 Minutes Each Day To Pay For Their Bicycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by James D. Schwartz, The Urban Country<\/p>\n<p>After revealing that the average American works about 2 hours a day to pay for the cost of automobile ownership earlier this month, I was asked to participate in a radio interview for the Edmonton\u2019s CJSR 88.5FM on Full English Breakfast with Peter Chapman to talk bicycles (listen to the full 13 minute segment here: [MP3 download]).<\/p>\n<p>For fun, the show hosts Peter Chapman and Karly Coleman crunched the numbers and determined that they work 3.5 minutes each day to pay for their bikes.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theurbancountry.com\/2011\/05\/americans-work-384-minutes-each-day-to.html\">https:\/\/www.theurbancountry.com\/2011\/05\/americans-work-384-minutes-each-day-to.html<\/a>oldId.2012021621082040<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by James D. Schwartz, The Urban Country After revealing that the average American works about 2 hours a day to pay for the cost of automobile ownership earlier this month, I was asked to participate in a radio interview for the Edmonton\u2019s CJSR 88.5FM on Full English Breakfast with Peter Chapman to talk bicycles (listen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=224888900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Americans Work 3.84 Minutes Each Day To Pay For Their Bicycles&#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-224888900","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\/224888900","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=224888900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224888900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224888900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224888900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224888900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}