{"id":402,"date":"2007-05-18T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=402"},"modified":"2007-05-18T15:02:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T20:02:52","slug":"And a bouncy Friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"And a bouncy Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/family\/josiah-bounce.mpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/josiah-bounce.jpg\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>(Click the picture to <a href=\"\/family\/josiah-bounce.mpg\" target=\"_blank\">watch Josiah<\/a> bounce!)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I am home from work early today after bouncing around town on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bike2work-day.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Bike-to-Work Day<\/a>. At 6AM this morning, I left to bike into downtown Birmingham to gather with other cyclists and bike commuters for a rally at Five Points South. When I got there, I saw ABC 33\/40 broadcasting live and moseyed on up to the front of about 30 people where my racing buddy, Travis, and Faris, one of our Tria-Market \/ Two Men and a Truck bike team sponsors, were hanging out. After the news reporter stopped broadcasting, she asked for a volunteer to be interviewed. She interviewed Travis first, and Travis didn&#8217;t hold back any words about how the city (especially motorists) could do better to facilitate bike commuting &#8212; wider roads, shoulders on roads, share the road attitudes, etc&#8230; Then Travis said she should talk to me since I commute to work every day on my bike. She asked me if I found it difficult to find safe roads to ride. I told her that where I live is like an island in that I am surrounded by Old Rocky Ridge and Rocky Ridge roads, which are not very safe for cyclists. Once I make it off those roads into the neighborhoods, I can find pretty safe roads to ride on &#8212; but there is no easy way to avoid the busier roads. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">After the interviews the group of about 30 went on a 7 mile tour that ended up at the Regional Planning Commission, home of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commutesmarter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CommuteSmart<\/a>, which sponsored the event. They had all kinds of schwag and I got a cool reflective cover for my backpack straps. Faris and I took off back over the mountain to Homewood and then I biked on into Samford for a nice 20 mile commute into work this morning! <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I finished preparing my final exam for my intro to computer science class, gave the exam, and then biked home and it&#8217;s just barely 3pm. I took this video of Josiah while Kristine was putting Analise down for a nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click the picture to watch Josiah bounce!) I am home from work early today after bouncing around town on National Bike-to-Work Day. At 6AM this morning, I left to bike into downtown Birmingham to gather with other cyclists and bike commuters for a rally at Five Points South. When I got there, I saw ABC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-6u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}