{"id":1655,"date":"2016-04-01T01:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T01:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2016-04-01T01:01:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T01:01:54","slug":"rode-report-2016-03-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"rode report 2016.03.31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful day. Second one in a row. It looks like winter riding is over (fingers crossed), which means more miles in the daylight, and that always inspires more confidence, at least for a little while. Yesterday, on the ride home, I felt like I wanted to ride as fast as I could, not that I did, because that&#8217;s not my jam around car traffic. Still, I had that very boundless feeling of happy energy from the sunshine and the 70 degrees temperature, which I channeled it into pushing myself on the hills.<\/p>\n<p>I remember a ride back in February, when it was still dark in the morning. I was stopped at a light in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2008\/10\/16\/rose-quarter-is-officially-open-for-business-9551\">Rose Quarter<\/a>, and I noticed birds chirping.\u00a0It felt so hopeful. Like, oh thank god,\u00a0twilight riding is almost over. There was a time when I liked my pre-sunrise and post-sunset\u00a0commutes. They were kind of quiet. My routes felt generally calm. But as car traffic in Portland worsens,\u00a0I am finding late fall and winter riding to be much more\u00a0mentally challenging than they used to be. Or maybe every year, I forget how it felt.\u00a0Anyway, I just deleted a bunch of stuff I wrote about winter commuting because the sun is out and we have entered the season of longer days. Be here now. Right?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful day. Second one in a row. It looks like winter riding is over (fingers crossed), which means more miles in the daylight, and that always inspires more confidence, at least for a little while. Yesterday, on the ride home, I felt like I wanted to ride as fast as I could, not that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}