{"id":26570602,"date":"2005-11-04T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T12:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=26570602"},"modified":"2005-11-04T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T12:43:22","slug":"to-be-or-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=26570602","title":{"rendered":"To be or to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>From <b>RoadBikeRider.com <\/b>free<br \/>\ne-newsletter:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"120\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/20051104124322359_1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&#8220;I have a very busy life, filled<br \/>\nwith a combination of things I want to do and things I have to do. There is<br \/>\npeacefulness in focusing on just one thing, like a mantra or meditation. In<br \/>\nthese long events, there are stretches of time that can be very relaxing and I<br \/>\nfeel <b>I am more of a human<br \/>\n&#8216;being&#8217;<\/b> and <b>less of a<br \/>\nhuman &#8216;doing.&#8217;<\/b> That is, of course, until it gets that little bit<br \/>\nharder and the discomfort takes all the fun out of it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&#8211; Dan McGehee double-century record<br \/>\nholder, a 43-year-old optometrist with a wife and three kids, explanation of the<br \/>\nattraction of long-distance time trialing<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From RoadBikeRider.com free e-newsletter: &#8220;I have a very busy life, filled with a combination of things I want to do and things I have to do. There is peacefulness in focusing on just one thing, like a mantra or meditation. In these long events, there are stretches of time that can be very relaxing and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=26570602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To be or to do&#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-26570602","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\/26570602","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=26570602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26570602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26570602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26570602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26570602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}