{"id":431748,"date":"2010-03-15T16:06:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-15-you-may-be-bike-curious-if\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:06:59","slug":"you-may-be-bike-curious-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/431748","title":{"rendered":"You may be bike-curious if &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Ashley Braun <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlblumenauer.com\/2009\/06\/12\/are-you-bike-curious\/\"><\/a>earlblumenauer.comInterested in experimenting with the more than 45 million other Americans out there trying it?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Exhausted by this nation&#8217;s tedious affair with one type of transport?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Wondering if you might like spinning your wheels the other way?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlblumenauer.com\/2009\/06\/12\/are-you-bike-curious\/\">you may be bike-curious<\/a>, says Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer.&nbsp;This Portland politician is pedaling bi-opportunities left and right: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congressional_Bike_Caucus\">bipartisanship<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenauer.house.gov\/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1553\">bipeds<\/a>,<br \/>\n and bicycling. If you&#8217;re into it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlblumenauer.com\/bike-curious-pledge\/\">take the bike-curious pledge<\/a>, and give the banana seat a ride at least once a week. But if you&#8217;re still questioning, find out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlblumenauer.com\/2009\/06\/13\/what-kind-bike-curious-are-you\/\">what kind of bike-curious you might be<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/bike-curious-in-rhode-island-video\/\">Bike Curious in Rhode Island (video)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-16-chanel-gives-global-warming-cold-shoulder-in-paris-fashion-show\/\">Chanel gives global warming the cold shoulder in Paris fashion show<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-11-how-many-venezuelan-soldiers-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb\/\">How many Venezuelan soldiers does it take to change a lightbulb?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=7d626b00442066259a46d80e867746c9&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=7d626b00442066259a46d80e867746c9&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Braun earlblumenauer.comInterested in experimenting with the more than 45 million other Americans out there trying it? Exhausted by this nation&#8217;s tedious affair with one type of transport? Wondering if you might like spinning your wheels the other way? Then, you may be bike-curious, says Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer.&nbsp;This Portland politician is pedaling bi-opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}