{"id":89347,"date":"2014-01-17T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T22:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89347"},"modified":"2014-01-17T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T22:46:54","slug":"mt-bike-in-search-of-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89347","title":{"rendered":"Mt Bike &#8211; In Search of Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At the end of sixth grade I found myself on a plane with my fellow students from Denver, Colorado, traveling 1,500 miles to Jacksonville, Florida. We were en route to Cumberland Island, a barrier island on the Georgia coast, just a stone\u2019s throw away from that north Florida city. The backpacking trip was an initiation of sorts into my future life of adventure. For a chubby pre-teen from landlocked suburbia, it was also an eye-opening journey to an exotic place, replete with chance encounters with wildlife seldom seen in Colorado: possums, armadillos and, yes, gators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My mission to map mountain bike routes across the country recently brought me back to this part of northern Florida. Returning the area evoked memories of that decades-ago trip and\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bicycling.com\/blogs\/all-over-the-map\/2014\/01\/14\/in-search-of-gators\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of sixth grade I found myself on a plane with my fellow students from Denver, Colorado, traveling 1,500 miles to Jacksonville, Florida. We were en route to Cumberland Island, a barrier island on the Georgia coast, just a stone\u2019s throw away from that north Florida city. The backpacking trip was an initiation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89347","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=89347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89348,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89347\/revisions\/89348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}