{"id":240,"date":"2011-09-03T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trampntrail.wordpress.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2011-09-03T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:00:22","slug":"hike-5966-blue-plate-special-sept-3-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/2011\/09\/03\/hike-5966-blue-plate-special-sept-3-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Hike #5966 &#8211; Blue Plate Special &#8211; Sept 3, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night one of our most treasured members, Pete Pliniski, aged 96, took his last steps down the trail, and I would like to dedicate this bike hike to him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/h5966-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-246\" title=\"#\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/h5966-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name Blue Plate Special has no particular significance except that near the end of our ride we experienced a pleasant downhill run on Blue Road before returning to Trenton Town Park.\u00a0 The day was cloudy and unpleasantly muggy and we found that rest stops were almost more strenuous than biking, where the wind surpressed some of the funkiness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/h5966-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-247\" title=\"#\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/h5966-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A highlight of this route is the two mile downhill run on Rt. 274 into Holland Patent where speeds of 38 MPH are routinely and safely achieved.\u00a0 We stopped for lunch at the village green in Holland Patent and had the added bonus of touring a farmer\u2019s market and buying such delicacies as molasses cookies baked by the son and daughter in law of Jim Gage, one of our long time members.\u00a0 After Blue Road a three mile jaunt took us back to Trenton Town Park and a delicious chocolate-zucchini cake baked by Nancy Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>By: \u00a0Harold Pier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night one of our most treasured members, Pete Pliniski, aged 96, took his last steps down the trail, and I would like to dedicate this bike hike to him. The name Blue Plate Special has no particular significance except that near the end of our ride we experienced a pleasant downhill run on Blue Road before returning to Trenton Town Park.\u00a0 The day was cloudy and unpleasantly muggy and we found that rest stops were almost more strenuous than&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/2011\/09\/03\/hike-5966-blue-plate-special-sept-3-2011\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1219],"tags":[1254,1319,1384,1443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trampntrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}