{"id":5551,"date":"2013-05-09T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T14:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2013-05-09T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T14:21:15","slug":"bicycling-downtown-is-it-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/05\/09\/bicycling-downtown-is-it-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycling downtown &#8212; is it worth it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"10\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:600px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8268618372\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\nI got some interesting feedback to my Tuesday City Talk column: <a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/exchange\/2013-05-06\/bicycling-downtown-savannah-it-worth-it\" target=\"_blank\">Bicycling in downtown Savannah: Is it worth it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried there to be honest about the costs and some of the hassles &#8212; including three times I was a victim of theft (one bike, one seat, one headlight).<\/p>\n<p>I also tried to convey a little bit of the sense of wonder that regular bike riders feel downtown. <\/p>\n<p>Another issue that I would have played up, in addition to savings in time and money: the general health benefits. Too often, running errands on my bicycle accounts for all the exercise I get for days on end. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to read more, click on through to the column. If you&#8217;re spending time reading this blog and not also reading my Savannah Morning News columns, please note that they&#8217;re linked via feed in the right sidebar. Over there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><\/p>\n<p>Cheers.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got some interesting feedback to my Tuesday City Talk column: Bicycling in downtown Savannah: Is it worth it? I tried there to be honest about the costs and some of the hassles &#8212; including three times I was a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/05\/09\/bicycling-downtown-is-it-worth-it\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[65,41],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1rx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}