{"id":5593,"date":"2012-08-25T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/25\/roads-like-this-really-exist-everywhere-in-ireland\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:26","slug":"roads-like-this-really-exist-everywhere-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/25\/roads-like-this-really-exist-everywhere-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads Like This Really Exist! Everywhere in Ireland&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/298af-photo.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/298af-photo.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=640%2C480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:x-large;\">I<\/span>n America, we always see bicycling romanticized with tree shaded roads and green exploding all along the periphery everywhere to be found. And yet in the all the hundreds of thousands of miles I have ridden back home, I cannot seem to recall even one passage-way with nature pressing in from both sides as well as erupting from the middle of it &nbsp;anywhere near like in the photo above.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">Here in Ireland, this is a common sight!!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In America, we always see bicycling romanticized with tree shaded roads and green exploding all along the periphery everywhere to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/25\/roads-like-this-really-exist-everywhere-in-ireland\/\">read more<\/a><\/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-5593","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-1sd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/05\/01\/the-rock-walls-fences-of-ireland\/","url_meta":{"origin":5593,"position":0},"title":"The Rock Walls (fences) of Ireland&#8230;..","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"May 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Pretty much everywhere I ride here, I see fences made out of rocks. 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