{"id":12,"date":"2009-10-15T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patclements.com\/article.php\/2009101422453983"},"modified":"2011-08-06T19:52:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T19:52:05","slug":"the-letter-i-never-sent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"The Letter I Never Sent"},"content":{"rendered":"Dear survivors of David Allison, I owe you a sincere apology.&nbsp; I rode the NTP with my buddy Steve in September of 2009.&nbsp; The terrible experience I had around Jackson and Tupelo with high speed motor vehicle traffic inspired me to write a letter to the park service that they needed to correct it.&nbsp; I never sent it and I feel terrible.&nbsp; If I had, and followed up on it, maybe David would still be alive.&nbsp; Here is the letter:Dear Sirs,I recently completed a self-supported bicycle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=12\" class=\"more-link\">Keep reading [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear survivors of David Allison, I owe you a sincere apology.&nbsp; I rode the NTP with my buddy Steve in September of 2009.&nbsp; The terrible experience I had around Jackson and Tupelo with high speed motor vehicle traffic inspired me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=12\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-advocacy-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}