{"id":4603,"date":"2013-03-06T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2013-03-06T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:27:07","slug":"transcontinental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/transcontinental\/","title":{"rendered":"transcontinental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/A010370-poncy.jpg\" alt=\"garrett street\"><br \/>\n(Charlottesville Bicycle Pedestrian Coordinator) Amanda Poncy out for a morning walk with Buddy, five year old tricolor hound. Coincidentally, Poncy is walking on the 1976 TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, a 4247 mile transcontinental trail established for the Bicentennial.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/A010366-belmont-store-snow.jpg\" alt=\"belmont store\"><br \/>\nOne of my favorite aspects of snow is the momentary reclamation of the street, the commons, the several square miles of our city which we ceded to the automobile in the last century.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/A010368-downtown-belmont.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nPedestrians momentarily rule. People see and speak to each other. Smartphones are stored.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/A010372-power-lines-snow.jpg\" alt=\"infrastructure\"><br \/>\nA calmness prevails. A chance to look around and see all we have created.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/L1002381-silver-maple.jpg\" alt=\"silver maple\"><br \/>\nWalking about, everything is almost black and white, a most salutary condition.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Charlottesville Bicycle Pedestrian Coordinator) Amanda Poncy out for a morning walk with Buddy, five year old tricolor hound. Coincidentally, Poncy is walking on the 1976 TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, a 4247 mile transcontinental trail established for the Bicentennial. One of my favorite aspects of snow is the momentary reclamation of the street, the commons, the several &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/transcontinental\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;transcontinental&#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":[51,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bipedal","category-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603"}],"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=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}