{"id":560,"date":"2012-09-29T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nbgireland.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/29\/82-yo-irish-farmer-tom\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:24","slug":"82-yo-irish-farmer-tom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/09\/29\/82-yo-irish-farmer-tom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"82 yo Irish Farmer Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RuCelq2rb0g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">&nbsp;A couple of days ago I was out riding when a herd of cows blocked my way. As I waited I began taking with the very humble man in charge when I had the presence of mind, with his permission, to switch on my recorder. Listen to a man who&nbsp;at 13 in 1942, ran a 30-acre farm when his dad died of a heart attack&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/89d8b-dscn06932.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/89d8b-dscn06932.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\">Today (10\/24\/13), a year and one-month later, I saw Tom again. This time I was on the Eagle&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\">and I got to meet his beautiful wife, Kathleen!<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;A couple of days ago I was out riding when a herd of cows blocked my way. As I waited&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/09\/29\/82-yo-irish-farmer-tom-2\/\">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-560","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-92","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5673,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/12\/jim-redd-the-man-who-started-chicago-c-mass\/","url_meta":{"origin":560,"position":0},"title":"Jim Redd &#8211; The Man who Started Chicago C-Mass","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"July 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Before he moved to Ecuador, Jim started the monstrous\u00a0Chicago Critical \u00a0Mass bike ride. which, numbering in the many thousands, is one of the biggest in the world. 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