{"id":4110,"date":"2010-10-31T21:52:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T07:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2010-10-31T21:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T07:52:23","slug":"ride-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/31\/ride-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/gallery\/d\/67132-1\/mdt_8907a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/gallery\/d\/67132-1\/mdt_8907a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>More heavy rains during the week made prospects for a weekend ride abysmal at best, but after a bleak Saturday, the sun rose Sunday in a clear sky. Everyone bailed on the ride except Taro and I, so we just turned in the normal <em>Ditch<\/em> ride in the cool afternoon. With all the rain, I was expecting at least a bit of dampness, but one would be hard pressed to spot any signs of the week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s precipitation. The leaves filling the runoff grooves along <em>Government Road<\/em> were undisturbed, and the places that accumulate water after the rains were bone dry. The only observable effects of the rains were a significant reduction in dust compared to the week before. The trail was mostly deserted, save for some people we heard but didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see when we were in the <em>side loop<\/em> and a couple with three dogs along the terminal extent of the <em>Ditch<\/em>. On the way out, we saw a pair of ownerless tan dogs that were gone by the time we came back along the trail. For post-ride food, we bypassed he normal pub and hit up El Mariachi in Kaneohe for some good Mexican food.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/gallery\/v\/Fooligans\/20101031\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>D = 12.5 km (7.77-miles), Vavr = 12.4 km\/h (7.7-mph), Vmax = 33.2 km\/h (20.6-mph), T = 1-hour (total trail time about an hour and three quarters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More heavy rains during the week made prospects for a weekend ride abysmal at best, but after a bleak Saturday, the sun rose Sunday in a clear sky. Everyone bailed on the ride except Taro and I, so we just turned in the normal Ditch ride in the cool afternoon. With all the rain, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-14i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}