{"id":1413,"date":"2008-08-16T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T17:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2008-08-16T12:28:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T17:28:31","slug":"i-cant-believe-this-was-only-14-or-so-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/16\/i-cant-believe-this-was-only-14-or-so-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t believe this was only 14 or so miles&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Unlike last weekend, when I had to sit at home all day waiting for the cable guy, who showed up exactly the last minute of my service &#8220;window&#8221;, today I got to get up early and take advantage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/summerstreets\/html\/home\/home.shtml\">Summer Streets<\/a>.  Which was fabulous.  It got a little crowded at times, and there were these REALLY annoying joggers running in formation who insisted on running in the &#8220;bike&#8221; half of the split bike\/runner lane on the brooklyn bridge (they wouldn&#8217;t have been <i>quite<\/i> so annoying if they didn&#8217;t condescendingly lecture bicyclists about keeping out of their way to boot), but all-in-all, a really nice way to spend a Saturday morning.  I&#8217;m definitely doing it again next week.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are interested, here&#8217;s a general approximation of the path I took.  the blue &#8220;points&#8221; are where I stopped and dropped a pin in google maps on my iphone when I got the chance.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114595443857487120327.000454960d75f2b2b6877&amp;ll=40.740964,-73.984154&amp;spn=0.074379,0.040813&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJrH8KmiYI_RyFXx53mBI8TWfKWgyA\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114595443857487120327.000454960d75f2b2b6877&amp;ll=40.740964,-73.984154&amp;spn=0.074379,0.040813&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I also took some photos, but I need to get them off of my camera first before they get posted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also trying to figure out how, if the &#8220;official&#8221; summer streets route is 6.9 miles (meaning 13.8 when doubled), AND i biked over from the west side through the park (adding at least a mile on the way over since I followed traffic and went down and around), AND I tacked on a ride over the brooklyn bridge at the end, google maps is saying that my route is  just under 14 miles.  It doesn&#8217;t make any sense.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike last weekend, when I had to sit at home all day waiting for the cable guy, who showed up exactly the last minute of my service &#8220;window&#8221;, today I got to get up early and take advantage of Summer Streets. Which was fabulous. It got a little crowded at times, and there were these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[],"tags":[40,14],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cycling","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-mN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}