{"id":3570,"date":"2009-03-13T08:33:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2009-03-13T08:33:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:33:02","slug":"cycling-round-the-world-bicycle-trip-turned-into-a-spiritual-journey-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3570","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Round-the-world bicycle trip turned into a spiritual journey as well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Gunn left Carson City in 2003 and spent almost three years peddling around the world on his bicycle.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aa\">Gunn, a former photojournalist for the Nevada Appeal, pedaled across 1,200 miles of Tibet at 16,000 to 18,000 feet while stricken with giardia. As a volunteer at an AIDS hospice in Thailand, at one point he risked contracting tuberculosis while caring for a dying woman&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rgj.com\/article\/20090312\/NEIGHBORHOODS\/903120368\/1247\/NEIGHBORHOODS\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Gunn left Carson City in 2003 and spent almost three years peddling around the world on his bicycle. Gunn, a former photojournalist for the Nevada Appeal, pedaled across 1,200 miles of Tibet at 16,000 to 18,000 feet while stricken with giardia. As a volunteer at an AIDS hospice in Thailand, at one point he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}