{"id":5679,"date":"2013-09-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/09\/20\/up-close-and-personal-2-minutes-with-raam-female-winner-maria-parker\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:06:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:06:57","slug":"up-close-and-personal-2-minutes-with-raam-female-winner-maria-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/09\/20\/up-close-and-personal-2-minutes-with-raam-female-winner-maria-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Close and Personal (2 minutes) with RAAM Female Winner, Maria Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLYeWvT-WPQ\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Her bike? A <a href=\"http:\/\/cruzbike.com\/\">Cruzbike<\/a> recumbent!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her bike? A Cruzbike recumbent!<\/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":[103,1,6,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruzbike","category-uncategorized","category-recumbent","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1tB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5693,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/06\/17\/cruzbike-maria-roars-back-in-raam-from-horrific-van-crash\/","url_meta":{"origin":5679,"position":0},"title":"Cruzbike Maria Roars Back in RAAM from Horrific Van Crash","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"June 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Details are still being pieced together but Maria Parker has climbed back to second place in her division after being forced to temporarily withdraw after a wreck \u00a0destroyed the support vehicle \u00a0that was following her.The only recumbent in a field of dozens of other bike racing competitors, \u00a0Maria had pedaled\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cruzbike&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cruzbike","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/cruzbike\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/maria-parker-12-24-record-2012c.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/maria-parker-12-24-record-2012c.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/maria-parker-12-24-record-2012c.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/maria-parker-12-24-record-2012c.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5688,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/06\/24\/cruzbike-maria-tops-raam-women-her-victory-speech\/","url_meta":{"origin":5679,"position":1},"title":"Cruzbike Maria Tops RAAM Women &#8211; Her Victory Speech","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"June 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In the video above, you can watch a true recumbent bicycling ambassador in action! 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