{"id":93496,"date":"2014-04-27T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93496"},"modified":"2014-04-27T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:30:56","slug":"in-s-f-bike-messengers-in-demand-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93496","title":{"rendered":"In S.F., bike messengers in demand again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Technology was supposed to be the end of bike messengers &#8211; until some couriers managed to make it their means.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The number of messengers in San Francisco has plummeted in the last two decades, but the surviving courier companies are getting a boost from tech and the on-demand lifestyle it enables.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As companies including Google, Amazon and eBay rev up their same-day delivery vans, startups are turning to bicycle messengers\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/restaurants\/article\/In-S-F-bike-messengers-in-demand-again-5432660.php\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology was supposed to be the end of bike messengers &#8211; until some couriers managed to make it their means. The number of messengers in San Francisco has plummeted in the last two decades, but the surviving courier companies are getting a boost from tech and the on-demand lifestyle it enables. As companies including Google, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,6,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-cycling","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93496","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=93496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93497,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93496\/revisions\/93497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}