{"id":1157,"date":"2014-06-14T23:42:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T03:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2014-06-14T23:45:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T03:45:32","slug":"bridges-bikes-and-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"Bridges, Bikes, and Happiness."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bikers\"<\/a> \"bikerdude\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bikes.<\/p>\n

I like bikes.\u00a0 When I was a kid, I learned how to ride a bike at a pretty early age, I think.\u00a0 I can vaguely remember the training wheels, and the day that I worked up the nerve to free myself from those back wheel beasts.<\/p>\n

And oh how I flew.\u00a0 The wind in my hair and the bugs in my teeth.\u00a0 I think I was five.\u00a0 Maybe four.<\/p>\n

I mean, by the time the seventh kid rolls around\u2026. and that was me\u2026. the whole bicycle riding deal is a lot like swimming.\u00a0 Oh\u2026. just DO IT already.<\/p>\n

I thank the heavens above that my family wasn\u2019t a Troupe of Wing Walkers at the Air Shows.\u00a0 I will tell you that much right now.<\/p>\n

But today\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0 I had my feet on the ground.\u00a0 I worked at an event call Bridges, Bikes and Blues.\u00a0 You see, I am on the Board of the Preble County Historical Society.\u00a0 I have been\u2026 over the years\u2026 a member of the board off and on since the late 1990s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And in recent years… we host this event called the BBB.<\/p>\n

It is a big whopping bit of fun.\u00a0 There is food, and music, and prizes,\u00a0 and lots and lots of people.<\/p>\n

And of course\u2026 at the title implies\u2026. lots of Bridges & Bikes.\u00a0\u00a0 But these aren\u2019t the kind of bikes I know\u2026. these are what they call\u2026 Motorcycles.\u00a0 Big shiny gorgeous loud motorcycles.\u00a0 By the thousands.<\/p>\n

It truly IS a cool event.\u00a0\u00a0 Folks take a tour of the county on their bikes and go to all of the historical covered bridges.\u00a0 The whole thing comes to a finish in Eaton, at the Courthouse Square.\u00a0\u00a0 There are lots of food vendors\u2026 from Kemos Submarines to Homemade Ice cream.\u00a0 And a Beer Garden.\u00a0 I saw a lot of Beer Farmers in the Beer Garden area\u2026. growing suds.<\/p>\n

It was a beautiful day\u2026 with a lot of beautiful people\u2026\u00a0 on beautiful bikes.<\/p>\n

As a Board Member\u2026 I feel the desire to thank all the people who rode safely and participated\u2026. to all the hard working folks who volunteered to make this thing work\u2026 and to all the sponsors who backed it up.<\/p>\n

But as a schmuck who thought her metallic green banana seat bicycle\u2026 with the streamers in the handlebars\u2026 and playing cards clothes pinned to the spokes\u2026 well\u2026 I think you all are AWESOME.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you’re on it.\u201d\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0Johnny Depp<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bikes. I like bikes.\u00a0 When I was a kid, I learned how to ride a bike at a pretty early age, I think.\u00a0 I can vaguely remember the training wheels, and the day that I worked up the nerve to free myself from those back wheel beasts. And oh how I flew.\u00a0 The wind in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}