{"id":1293,"date":"2011-08-13T22:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2011-08-13T22:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T02:50:46","slug":"sean-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/13\/sean-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Rides Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve done on two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/26\/pedal-with-a-cause\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/hes-at-it-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">occasions<\/a>, I&#8217;m doing a fundraising bike ride for charity.\u00a0 There are a couple of differences this time, though.\u00a0 Instead of the MS Society, I&#8217;m riding in an event being held for the first time by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbankwma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Food Bank of Western Massachusetts<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a local organization that collects and distributes food to other area organizations that serve people in need of food.<\/p>\n<p>The other difference is that, instead of going 50 miles, which is pretty easy for me now, I&#8217;m going to try and ride 100 miles &#8211; something I have not yet come even close to.<\/p>\n<p>As with other rides, I&#8217;m looking for donations in any amount to benefit the Food Bank.\u00a0 My goal is to try and raise a total of $1000.\u00a0 If you want to give, you can visit my fundraising page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pledgereg.com\/21078\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.pledgereg.com\/21078<\/a> and donate online, or contact me to send me payment in another form.<\/p>\n<p>The ride takes place on September 17.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in the process of training now, and my next few posts will be about training rides I&#8217;ve already done.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve done on two previous occasions, I&#8217;m doing a fundraising bike ride for charity.\u00a0 There are a couple of differences this time, though.\u00a0 Instead of the MS Society, I&#8217;m riding in an event being held for the first time by the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a local organization that collects and distributes &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/13\/sean-rides-again\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}