{"id":7159,"date":"2011-07-28T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T21:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2011-07-30T08:48:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T14:48:39","slug":"felix-salmon-bike-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=7159","title":{"rendered":"Felix Salmon | Bike slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iStock_000015953688XSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7161\" title=\"iStock_000015953688XSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iStock_000015953688XSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iStock_000015953688XSmall.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iStock_000015953688XSmall-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iStock_000015953688XSmall-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, the propensity of non-bicyclists to give biking a try is inversely proportional to the average velocity of the bikers they see on the street. If you live in a city where women in wedge heels are steering their old steel bikes around their daily errand route, there\u2019s really nothing intimidating or scary about the prospect of getting on a bike yourself. If it\u2019s all hipsters on fixies, by contrast, that just makes biking feel all the more alien and stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2011\/07\/28\/bike-slowly\/\">Felix Salmon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule, the propensity of non-bicyclists to give biking a try is inversely proportional to the average velocity of the bikers they see on the street. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":7161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-7159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-bicycles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}