{"id":38447,"date":"2013-05-29T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_colorado_churches_to_bless_cyclists_bikes_they_ride_up_on\/"},"modified":"2013-05-29T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:00:02","slug":"in_colorado_churches_to_bless_cyclists_bikes_they_ride_up_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38447","title":{"rendered":"In Colorado Churches to bless cyclists, bikes they ride up on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclists gearing up for summer bike rides can take a detour to the Blessing of the Bicycles on June 2, when four local churches will offer a few spiritual and inspirational words for bike enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>The Blessing of the Bicycles kicks off Walk and Bike Month and also serves as a bicycle parts drive for Community Cycles, a bike advocacy nonprofit group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My road and mountain bikes are my beloved friends, and as an older cyclist riding on busy roads, I can use all the prayers and blessing I can get. I thought there must be other people out there who would feel likewise,&#8221; said the Rev. Susan Springer, rector at St. John&#8217;s Episcopal Church, who established the bicycle blessing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/religion\/ci_23320442\/megan-quinn-churches-bless-cyclists-bikes-they-ride\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclists gearing up for summer bike rides can take a detour to the Blessing of the Bicycles on June 2, when four local churches will offer a few spiritual and inspirational words for bike enthusiasts. The Blessing of the Bicycles<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38447\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,66,184,108,128,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sports","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}