{"id":18938,"date":"2011-03-22T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18938"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:13:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:13:14","slug":"i-want-to-ride-my-bicycle-season-5-cease-and-desist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18938","title":{"rendered":"I Want To Ride My Bicycle, Season 5: Cease And Desist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Mother Nature<\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg, Biker<\/p>\n<p>Re: Springing for Spring<\/p>\n<p>Ma:<\/p>\n<p>By this time last year, I&#8217;d been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9271\">commuting via bike for a week already<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4428\">I&#8217;d been on the road for four days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, of course, we had an ice storm in early April, pushing biking season back to the middle of the month, so I shouldn&#8217;t complain too hard.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Ma &#8211; I love winter (or what Twin Citians call &#8220;winter&#8221;) as much as the next guy, but could we get off the can and on the stick here?<\/p>\n<p>Melt, baby, melt.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>(And no, I do realize that a fast melt will cause all sorts of flooding problems, and I do not want that.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just itching to get on the road).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Mother Nature From: Mitch Berg, Biker Re: Springing for Spring Ma: By this time last year, I&#8217;d been commuting via bike for a week already. Two years ago?\u00a0 I&#8217;d been on the road for four days. In 2008, of course, we had an ice storm in early April, pushing biking season back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18950,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18938\/revisions\/18950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}