{"id":1091,"date":"2016-12-04T06:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2017-01-11T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T01:22:03","slug":"dec-4-madison-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Dec. 4, Madison, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Folks!<\/p>\n<p>In the last post, I talked about tagging hummingbirds. Well&#8211;we got one on Friday. It was really interesting to hold one of these little guys. I could feel its heart beating at about 300 beats per minute.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1092\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1092\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1092\" src=\"http:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2062-e1480856862451-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Tagging a humming bird\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2062-e1480856862451-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2062-e1480856862451-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tagging a humming bird<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had originally planned on giving a lecture at Florida State University, but it fell through. Instead, I gave a lecture to a small group of astronomy enthusiasts, put together at the last moment.<\/p>\n<p>I rode out of Tallahassee, Saturday morning (12\/3) following US-90. The traffic was light most of the day, and I had good shoulders. Earlier, I had contacted the city offices on Madison, FL, looking for a place to camp. They set me up with a really nice bunch of folks at the local fire station!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1093\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1093\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1093\" src=\"http:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2082-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Fred--a firefighter--and myself in front of their show truck.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2082-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2082-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2082-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred&#8211;a firefighter&#8211;and myself in front of their show truck.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This was one of the most low key days of cycling&#8230;but I did have one very interesting thing occur. You could imagine someone walking around the world, right? Well I encountered someone walking the world around.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1094\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1094\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1094\" src=\"http:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2068-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A man rolling a globe along US 90.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2068-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2068-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_2068-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man rolling a globe along US 90.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is not something you see every day!<\/p>\n<p>I need to get on the road, so I will say farewell until my next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Folks! In the last post, I talked about tagging hummingbirds. Well&#8211;we got one on Friday. It was really interesting to hold one of these little guys. I could feel its heart beating at about 300 beats per minute. I had originally planned on giving a lecture at Florida State University, but it fell through.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/?p=1091\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwstworldbicycletour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}