{"id":326,"date":"2012-06-05T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nbg-irelandtrainingrides.posterous.com\/irish-cow-jam"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:27","slug":"irish-cow-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/06\/05\/irish-cow-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Cow Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/41825448-img_3193.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"135\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/06\/05\/irish-cow-jam\/41825448-img_3193-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/41825448-img_3193.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 3G&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1338918696&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"41825448-IMG_3193\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/41825448-img_3193.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135\" alt=\"41825448-IMG_3193\" src=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/41825448-img_3193.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">How often have you ever had to stop for 100 cows?<\/p>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/41825509-img_3194.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"137\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/06\/05\/irish-cow-jam\/41825509-img_3194-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/41825509-img_3194.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 3G&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1338918703&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"41825509-IMG_3194\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/41825509-img_3194.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-137\" alt=\"41825509-IMG_3194\" src=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/41825509-img_3194.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I know I had no choice in the matter &#8211; these animals are huge!<\/p>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/41826159-img_3199.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138\" alt=\"41826159-IMG_3199\" src=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/41826159-img_3199.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Ten minutes later, I was free to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often have you ever had to stop for 100 cows? I know I had no choice in the matter &#8211; these animals are huge! Ten minutes later, I was free to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[80,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duplicate","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-5g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5525,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/09\/07\/irish-cow-jam-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":326,"position":0},"title":"Irish Cow Jam","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"September 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Recovered from Posterous.com, a now closed blogging platform\u00a0June 5 2012, 11:55 AM \u00a0by Martin\u00a0 Krieg How often have you ever had to stop for 100 cows?\u00a0I know I had no choice in the matter - these animals are huge! 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