{"id":398,"date":"2008-05-05T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=398"},"modified":"2008-05-05T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T17:10:00","slug":"saddle-sore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Saddle sore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning in Beaverton needing to get home to Gresham. I had originally planned to get a lift to the MAX station and ride it home, but during the brief car ride, I somehow talked myself into biking home. Yeah, because my tailbone wasn&#8217;t sore enough from Sunday. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>From downtown Portland, I crossed the river on the Hawthorne Bridge and then followed the waterfront south, past the Sellwood Bridge and caught the Springwater Corridor all the way east to Gresham.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, was I really in Portland? Ample views of Johnson Creek, woods and marshland. Spotted a rabbit on the trail, sheep in someone&#8217;s field, horses in another field, roosters and a possum (or a former possum). I took a very brief breather on the way, but otherwise hammered through it. Just a bit over 17 miles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/brauhze\/BreakingInTheBike\/photo#5196959404221956978\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/brauhze\/SB9PCyDGg3I\/AAAAAAAAA_k\/okl1guqEq2Q\/s800\/2008%2005%2005%20route.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, so <b>that&#8217;s<\/b> where my quadriceps are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning in Beaverton needing to get home to Gresham. I had originally planned to get a lift to the MAX station and ride it home, but&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=398\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,43],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biking","tag-pdx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}