{"id":5,"date":"2005-12-12T22:22:56","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T03:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2005-12-13T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T15:38:12","slug":"biking-my-booty-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2005\/biking-my-booty-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking My Booty Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to bike 13 miles to work in Florida, when I was a younger man, and I&#8217;ve been talking about biking to work here in North Carolina since we moved up 5 years ago.  All talk, no action, until this past Friday.  Our office moved from an impossible 20 miles away to a cakewalk 7 or 8 miles.  So Friday and today were successful runs at biking to and from work.  Hills are a bear!  I&#8217;d say the 7 miles are roughly equivalent to the 13 flat Florida miles.  <\/p>\n<p>Jim Brown, the guy that keeps the servers humming at work, has been my inspiration &#8211; he&#8217;s been riding to work for years, he&#8217;d have to do my run 3 or 4 times every day to be satisfied.  We&#8217;ll see if I can give him a run for his money any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to bike 13 miles to work in Florida, when I was a younger man, and I&#8217;ve been talking about biking to work here in North Carolina since we moved up 5 years ago. All talk, no action, until this past Friday. Our office moved from an impossible 20 miles away to a cakewalk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2005\/biking-my-booty-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biking My Booty Off<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-my-rowdy-friends","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":400,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2009\/biked-to-downtown-for-bike-to-work-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":5,"position":0},"title":"Biked to downtown for Bike-To-Work week","author":"m","date":"May 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"At 24 miles one-way, it was a good ride! 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