{"id":5596,"date":"2012-08-16T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/16\/irish-farm-roads-vs-us-farm-roads\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:26","slug":"irish-farm-roads-vs-us-farm-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/16\/irish-farm-roads-vs-us-farm-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Farm Roads vs US Farm Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/e934d-img_3820.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\/e934d-img_3820.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=640%2C480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:x-large;\">T<\/span>he farm roads of Ireland are just too delicious. Unlike the dry, boring sameness of scenery found in our American bread basket states (Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, etc), the beauty, the lakes and the Car Free one lane roads here are non stop&#8230;&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/84ab1-img_3824.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/84ab1-img_3824.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=400%2C300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/733fb-img_3827.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/733fb-img_3827.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=400%2C300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\">Can you see the wind turbines that line the ridges off in the distance?<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><br><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_5596\"  data-site_id=\"6a2997d46fd08b3f3a6bb873\"  data-theme=\"custom\"  data-icon_size=\"40\"  data-icon_l_c=\"#287723\"  data-icon_d_c=\"#9e4824\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/16\/irish-farm-roads-vs-us-farm-roads\/\"  data-item_title=\"Irish Farm Roads vs US Farm Roads\"  data-item_date=\"2012-08-16T11:20:00-07:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.64\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><br><br><br><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The farm roads of Ireland are just too delicious. Unlike the dry, boring sameness of scenery found in our American&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/16\/irish-farm-roads-vs-us-farm-roads\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><br><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_5596\"  data-site_id=\"6a2997d46fd08b3f3a6bb873\"  data-theme=\"custom\"  data-icon_size=\"40\"  data-icon_l_c=\"#287723\"  data-icon_d_c=\"#9e4824\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/16\/irish-farm-roads-vs-us-farm-roads\/\"  data-item_title=\"Irish Farm Roads vs US Farm Roads\"  data-item_date=\"2012-08-16T11:20:00-07:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.64\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><br><br><br><\/div>","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-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duplicate","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1sg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5595,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/20\/international-collaboration-to-keep-eagle-on-irish-roads\/","url_meta":{"origin":5596,"position":0},"title":"International Collaboration to Keep Eagle on Irish Roads","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"August 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Even tho my broken elbow is healed \u00a0I'm \u00a0still NOT training on the\u00a0Eagle\u00a0over here in Ireland! \u00a0As its broken wheel is not coming together as quickly as we had hoped, all I can think Is that it is giving the \u00a0shoulder I also severely strained, \u00a0more time to heal. 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