{"id":36,"date":"2005-12-20T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T08:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2005-12-20T08:54:59","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T08:54:59","slug":"biking_through_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Biking Through the Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rode my bike in this AM to avery the chaos of the NYC transit strike.&nbsp; Wore extra layers and lobster claw gloves to cope with the cold.&nbsp; Here are a few observations:<\/p>\n<p>* Lots of traffic over Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges&#8211;especially pedestrian foot traffic.<br \/>\n* Lower manhattan was eerily quiet&#8211;like an early Sunday morning. <br \/>\n* Serious congestion around New York Penn Station.&nbsp; <br \/>\n* Cabbies are picking up multiple fares&#8211;be careful of pedestrians!<br \/>\n* Bike lanes were well marked. <br \/>\n* There were lots of fellow cyclists out there, skateboarders, and folks on scooters.<br \/>\n* Serious traffic coming down broadway&#8211;seemed like gridlock.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Commute <a href=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/photos\/strike\/\">photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rode my bike in this AM to avery the chaos of the NYC transit strike.&nbsp; Wore extra layers and lobster claw gloves to cope with the cold.&nbsp; Here are a few observations: * Lots of traffic over Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges&#8211;especially pedestrian foot traffic. * Lower manhattan was eerily quiet&#8211;like an early Sunday morning. * [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-city"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}