{"id":754,"date":"2015-05-04T19:56:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T03:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2015-05-04T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T03:56:42","slug":"its-been-nailed-the-problems-with-biking-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/its-been-nailed-the-problems-with-biking-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been nailed: the problems with biking in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written anything about advocacy <a title=\"Identity crisis\" href=\"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/identity-crisis\/\">in nearly a year<\/a>, because I stopped having anything very useful to say, and also I nearly stopped riding my bike.<\/p>\n<p>And then I saw that <a href=\"http:\/\/loveandtransportation.com\/?p=331\">Liz had nailed it<\/a>, and I felt the need to let everyone know: it has been nailed. She speaketh the truth, and she speaketh it clearly and without venom but with the palpable sense of frustration that I also felt.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started to see more and more people speaking from the place that I felt I was in a little over a year ago <a title=\"The emotional challenges of advocacy.\" href=\"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/the-emotional-challenges-of-advocacy\/\">just before\u00c2\u00a0I quit advocacy<\/a>, and if I were still riding my bike I&#8217;d want to get those people together so we could figure out what to do next. They&#8217;ll probably get together anyway, or already have &#8212; I hope so. Liz, Brian, Carl, and Will &#8212; if you&#8217;re reading this, please go have a beer together, and figure out what kind of advocacy arises from clear seeing of the truth.<\/p>\n<p>My gimpy self will thank you, if I ever get back on the bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written anything about advocacy in nearly a year, because I stopped having anything very useful to say, and also I nearly stopped riding my bike. And then I saw that Liz had nailed it, and I felt the need to let everyone know: it has been nailed. She speaketh the truth, and she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}