{"id":312,"date":"2008-05-12T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-05-05T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T20:46:33","slug":"bike-to-work-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/bike-to-work-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike to Work Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/miles-from-nowhere2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-314 alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"miles-from-nowhere2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/miles-from-nowhere2.jpg?resize=144%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Miles from Nowhere\" \/><\/a>Gas prices making you cringe? Gained a few pounds over the winter? Try riding your bike to work. It&#8217;s a great way to get and stay in shape, requires no expensive trips to the gas station and it&#8217;s better for the environment. Plus, biking is fun! We&#8217;re lucky to have one of the best recreational trail systems in the country right here in Davenport and the Quad Cities. In addition, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofdavenportiowa.com\/egov\/docs\/115507192336.htm\" target=\"_blank\">all Citibuses have bike racks<\/a><\/strong>; there is no extra fee to use them and they can expand your options for getting around on two wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Bike to Work Week is May 10-16 to both encourage people to commute to work and to raise awareness of bicycles on the road. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeiowa.com\/asp\/bike\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bike Iowa<\/a><\/strong> can give you lots of tips on how to commute and lots of reasons why it&#8217;s a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Need a little inspiration? <a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=barbara%20savage&amp;srchfield1=AU^AUTHOR^AUTHORS^Author%20Processing^author&amp;searchoper1=AND&amp;library=DPLG&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Miles From Nowhere<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Barbara Savage is about the round-the-world bicycle trip Savage and her husband made. This is a great book &#8211; funny, exciting, sometimes tense (attacked by rock throwing men in Egypt), always interesting, Savage and her husband quit their jobs and spent two years on their adventure. Their story makes for can&#8217;t-put-down reading and may inspire you to dust off your own bike for a trip around the neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas prices making you cringe? Gained a few pounds over the winter? Try riding your bike to work. It&#8217;s a great way to get and stay in shape, requires no expensive trips to the gas station and it&#8217;s better for the environment. Plus, biking is fun! We&#8217;re lucky to have<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/bike-to-work-week\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","category-websites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-52","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}