{"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","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","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_featured_media_url":"","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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However, from time to time they stop all together, as this photo shows.......","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ireland&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ireland","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/ireland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/28895379-IMG_0474.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/28895379-IMG_0474.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/28895379-IMG_0474.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/28895379-IMG_0474.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/28895379-IMG_0474.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/28895379-IMG_0474.jpg?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5598,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/08\/06\/cayo-and-i-on-the-irish-roads\/","url_meta":{"origin":5596,"position":3},"title":"Cayo and I on the Irish roads","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"August 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is what Cayo and I look like on the Irish roads......","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Duplicate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Duplicate","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/duplicate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":121,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/05\/21\/everyday-roads-everyday-tractors\/","url_meta":{"origin":5596,"position":4},"title":"Everyday Roads &#8211; Everyday Tractors","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"May 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tractors live a hard life here...... To see more, go HERE.. 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