{"id":19073,"date":"2009-02-20T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/02\/20\/announcements-on-the-ferry-and-hills-that-grew-while-i-was-away\/"},"modified":"2009-02-20T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T10:00:01","slug":"announcements-on-the-ferry-and-hills-that-grew-while-i-was-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090220-01\/?p=19073","title":{"rendered":"Announcements on the ferry, and hills that grew while I was away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cascade.org\/EandR\/chilly\/index.cfm\"> Chilly Hilly<\/a> bike ride, an early wake-up call to bicyclists in the Seattle area to get their act together and hit the road.<\/p>\n<p> Last year, I joined <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2004199188_chillyhilly25m.html\"> my 2999 closest friends up and down the hills of Bainbridge Island<\/a>. Unfortunately, the hills had <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/08\/08\/448970.aspx\"> grown taller<\/a> in the two years since my last ride. <\/p>\n<p> There was an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/06\/19\/636824.aspx\"> announcement on the ferry<\/a>. It went something like this: &#8220;Your attention please. There is a bicycle on the car deck that has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/watson_house\/3301394737\/\"> fallen over onto its side<\/a>. Repeat: A bicycle has fallen onto its side.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> It took a few seconds for the joke to sink in with all the people on the ferry, but after a short while, the passenger deck was chuckling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is the annual Chilly Hilly bike ride, an early wake-up call to bicyclists in the Seattle area to get their act together and hit the road. Last year, I joined my 2999 closest friends up and down the hills of Bainbridge Island. Unfortunately, the hills had grown taller in the two years since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-19073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This weekend is the annual Chilly Hilly bike ride, an early wake-up call to bicyclists in the Seattle area to get their act together and hit the road. Last year, I joined my 2999 closest friends up and down the hills of Bainbridge Island. Unfortunately, the hills had grown taller in the two years since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}