{"id":284830990,"date":"2014-01-10T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=284830990"},"modified":"2014-01-10T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T15:43:10","slug":"the-bicycle-is-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=284830990","title":{"rendered":"THE BICYCLE IS BEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Question: not only is cycling more liberating than any other way of getting around, argues Emma Duncan, it&#8217;s also more egalitarian<br \/>\nFrom INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, January\/February 2014<br \/>\nTransport is a subtly political business. Left-wingers like trains (central planning, low fuel consumption, largely egalitarian seating). Right-wingers like cars (freedom, independence, individualism). Only the bicycle crosses the political divide: it embodies both liberty and equality.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nEven in rich countries, the cyclist has a greater liberty than any other traveller. She cruises up alongside traffic jams, as drivers fume. When the road is closed and screeching cars make angry U-turns, the cyclist picks up her bicycle, smugly wheels it along the pavement under the impotent glare of policemen, and nips back onto the road when their backs are turned.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/ideas\/simon-willis\/travelling-best-bicycle\">https:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/ideas\/simon-willis\/travelling-best-bicycle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Question: not only is cycling more liberating than any other way of getting around, argues Emma Duncan, it&#8217;s also more egalitarian From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, January\/February 2014 Transport is a subtly political business. Left-wingers like trains (central planning, low fuel consumption, largely egalitarian seating). Right-wingers like cars (freedom, independence, individualism). Only the bicycle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=284830990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE BICYCLE IS BEST&#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-284830990","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\/284830990","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=284830990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284830990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284830990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284830990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284830990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}