{"id":2046,"date":"2011-04-15T21:26:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T03:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2011-04-30T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T03:56:25","slug":"one-way-ride-almost-didnt-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/2011\/04\/15\/one-way-ride-almost-didnt-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"One Way Ride &#8211; Almost Didn&#8217;t Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was chilly and windy. Went back in the house and started to change into my Farm clothes to help feed the ponies. Stopped. Had a quick chat with myself; put my cycling garb back on and headed out.<\/p>\n<p>Beth and I were heading to the last Colorado Mammoth game tonight so she was going to drive my car down later in the day and pick me up. But, if I wimped out, I could drive down like normal and then she&#8217;d just drive her 4-Runner down instead.\u00a0 We both prefer to have one car when we go to Denver, but it certainly wouldn&#8217;t be the first time that we&#8217;d taken two cars as far as LGS.<\/p>\n<p>Ended up that I rode and enjoyed myself almost as soon as I headed out. Getting the first few pedals in is often the hardest. Stepping outside into a chilly morning always makes me question my decision to ride. I have yet to regret heading out though. Even the one time I ended up calling Beth (and the whippets) for a rescue pick-up. I would have liked to continue that day, it just wasn&#8217;t safe.<\/p>\n<p>Glad I did. Had a nice ride with helpful north and west winds.\u00a0 More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was chilly and windy. Went back in the house and started to change into my Farm clothes to help feed the ponies. Stopped. Had a quick chat with myself; put my cycling garb back on and headed out. Beth and I were heading to the last Colorado Mammoth game tonight so she was going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2048,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}