{"id":483,"date":"2011-11-19T23:48:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2011-11-19T23:48:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:48:17","slug":"november-rain-of-gratitude-day-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"November Rain of Gratitude &#8211; Day 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frenchmen Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement,  German Baron Karl von Drais, and Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, are the recipients of today&#8217;s gratitude for each of their roles in the development of the modern day bicycle.  Without the invention of the velocipede back in 1817 and it&#8217;s subsequent technological advancements there would be no mountain bike, no motocross, no Tour de France, no beach cruisers, no cool &#8220;ring ring&#8221; bicycle bells, no bike shorts&#8230; well&#8230;uuuhhh&#8230;eerr.. let&#8217;s just be happy we can ride a bike and leave it at that.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frenchmen Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement, German Baron Karl von Drais, and Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, are the recipients of today&#8217;s gratitude for each of their roles in the development of the modern day bicycle. Without the invention of the velocipede back in 1817 and it&#8217;s subsequent technological advancements there would be no mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novemberrainofgratitude"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JamesSilverman_NovGrat19_bike.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}