{"id":282492497,"date":"2013-12-14T14:08:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=282492497"},"modified":"2013-12-14T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T14:08:17","slug":"shifting-gears-commuting-aboard-the-l-a-bike-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=282492497","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Gears: Commuting Aboard The L.A. Bike Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It would be nice if we could start something like this here,]<br \/>\n****************************************************************************<br \/>\nby ALEX SCHMIDT, NPR<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nEnter L.A. Bike Trains \u2014 an organization that arranges commutes by bike in groups. Each Bike Train route has an experienced conductor who serves as a guide. Insua especially likes that these volunteer conductors offer new riders door-to-door service from their homes to the train.<br \/>\n&quot;He came and picked me up from my house,&quot; Insua says. &quot;[He] went out of his way to get me to bike for two or three weeks. Then I was conditioned. Then I was brainwashed.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/12\/01\/248063342\/shifting-gears-commuting-aboard-the-l-a-bike-trains\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/12\/01\/248063342\/shifting-gears-commuting-aboard-the-l-a-bike-trains<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: It would be nice if we could start something like this here,] **************************************************************************** by ALEX SCHMIDT, NPR &#8230; Enter L.A. Bike Trains \u2014 an organization that arranges commutes by bike in groups. Each Bike Train route has an experienced conductor who serves as a guide. Insua especially likes that these volunteer conductors offer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=282492497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shifting Gears: Commuting Aboard The L.A. Bike Trains&#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-282492497","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\/282492497","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=282492497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282492497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282492497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282492497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282492497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}