{"id":2309,"date":"2011-02-12T17:52:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T01:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2011-02-12T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T01:52:23","slug":"first_ride_of_2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/02\/first_ride_of_2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: First Ride Of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many areas of the northern hemisphere, the Pacific Northwest has had a mild winter so far. Still, it has hardly been prime cycling weather. It was unseasonably warm today&#151;above 60&#8243;\u00ba C&#151;so my Italian friend Vigorelli Bianchi<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/03\/Bianchi-thumb-133x80-4140-thumb-133x80-4141-thumb-133x80-4142-thumb-133x80-4143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Bianchi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/Bianchi-thumb-133x80-4140-thumb-133x80-4141-thumb-133x80-4142-thumb-133x80-4143-thumb-133x80-13889.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"80\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a> and I hit the road. Downside: the roads and streets were scattered with gravel laid for non-skid protection when there was ice and snow. That made cornering hazardous in spots. Downside #2: there was a powerful southwest wind. On the outbound journey some of the headwind gusts had us going so slow that gravity nearly overcame forward motion. Vigorelli never complained, but my legs did.<br \/>\nUpside: on the homebound leg going northeast, we flew like&#151;well&#151;the wind. We were passing cars. It was exhilarating to be back in the saddle again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many areas of the northern hemisphere, the Pacific Northwest has had a mild winter so far. Still, it has hardly been prime cycling weather. It was unseasonably warm today&#151;above 60&#8243;\u00ba C&#151;so my Italian friend Vigorelli Bianchi and I hit the road. Downside: the roads and streets were scattered with gravel laid for non-skid protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}