{"id":2223,"date":"2011-05-19T10:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2011-05-19T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:26:39","slug":"ride-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/ride-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"ride of silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cma1118-7533-ride-of-silence.jpg\" alt=\"cyclists on Water Street\"><br \/>\nA second ride of silence took place in CHO yesterday. This is a worldwide event held every year, 3rd Wednesday in May, beginning in 2003. Locally the event is organized by cyclist Alan Bewley.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cma1118-7537-no-bike-lane-sign.jpg\" alt=\"Main street\"><br \/>\nMore information is available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideofsilence.org\/main.php\">official ride of silence website<\/a>.  The ride highlights the fact that our roads are shared public spaces that are not shared very well. The ride honors, and provides a prolonged moment of meditation\/contemplation for cyclists killed in the streets.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cma1118-7543-ride-of-silence-rugby.jpg\" alt=\"Rugby Rd\"><br \/>\nThe rolling police protection which accompanied the 80+ riders through the streets of CHO Wednesday affords a level of safety <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billemory.com\/labels\/motoring.html\">missing for cyclists most days.<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cma1118-7550-norris-bewley.jpg\" alt=\"Norris, Bewley\"><br \/>\nMayor Dave Norris, after the ride with event organizer Alan Bewley.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cma1118-ride-of-silence.jpg\"><br \/>\nSome of the riders&#8230;<br \/>\nIan Ayers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/23948189\">video of the event.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvillepodcast.com\/2007\/01\/27\/street-rivals\/\">Peter Norton and Coy Barefoot<\/a> talk about the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second ride of silence took place in CHO yesterday. This is a worldwide event held every year, 3rd Wednesday in May, beginning in 2003. Locally the event is organized by cyclist Alan Bewley. More information is available at the official ride of silence website. The ride highlights the fact that our roads are shared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/ride-of-silence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ride of silence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-urban-planning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}