{"id":282424158,"date":"2013-12-13T19:09:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=282424158"},"modified":"2013-12-13T19:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:09:18","slug":"5-economic-myths-about-bicycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=282424158","title":{"rendered":"5 Economic Myths About Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all rich, and poor, and freeloaders<\/p>\n<p>By Elly Blue,  Bicycling<\/p>\n<p>y new book, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy came out this week! During my research on the book, I ran up against a bunch of myths about people who ride bicycles. Like all good myths, these contained a kernel of truth. Likewise, they all miss the boat while trying to describe the reality of the pedal-powered economic revolution that\u2019s quietly spreading across the US of A.<\/p>\n<p>Myth 1: We\u2019re rich<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMyth 2: We\u2019re poor<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMyth 3: We\u2019re cheapskates<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMyth 4: We\u2019re freeloaders<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMyth 5: We just help ourselves<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bicycling.com\/blogs\/everyday-rider\/2013\/12\/06\/5-economic-myths-about-bicycling\/\">https:\/\/blogs.bicycling.com\/blogs\/everyday-rider\/2013\/12\/06\/5-economic-myths-about-bicycling\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all rich, and poor, and freeloaders By Elly Blue, Bicycling y new book, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy came out this week! During my research on the book, I ran up against a bunch of myths about people who ride bicycles. Like all good myths, these contained a kernel of truth. Likewise, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=282424158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;5 Economic Myths About Bicycling&#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-282424158","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\/282424158","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=282424158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282424158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282424158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282424158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282424158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}