{"id":979,"date":"2007-10-08T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:31:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:31:19","slug":"help-me-understand-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Help me understand this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/05\/travel\/escapes\/05trip.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118755135443361042\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/bikepath.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I&#8217;m not a cyclist, so I must be missing something, but can someone help me to understand why the *serious* cyclists won&#8217;t use the multi-million dollar bike path at Sandy Hook? It&#8217;s plenty long and wide and has wonderful views of the bay and the holly forest and the ocean dunes. They even routed it through some of our favorite birding spots at the Hook &#8211; yet those darn people won&#8217;t use it and instead insist on putting themselves out in the middle of traffic like they own the road! Do they have some sort of a death wish? Is playing in busy shore traffic part of the allure of cycling?<\/p>\n<p>Please help me understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a cyclist, so I must be missing something, but can someone help me to understand why the *serious* cyclists won&#8217;t use the multi-million dollar bike path at Sandy Hook? It&#8217;s plenty long and wide and has wonderful views of the bay and the holly forest and the ocean dunes. They even routed it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=979\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Help me understand this<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}