{"id":157,"date":"2013-10-07T18:35:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2013-10-07T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T18:36:00","slug":"157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Car-Centric Spain Begins To Embrace The Bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bicyclistsInSpain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-158 alignleft\" alt=\"bicyclistsInSpain\" src=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bicyclistsInSpain-300x168.jpg\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bicyclistsInSpain-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bicyclistsInSpain-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bicyclistsInSpain.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>For the first time on record, bicycles have outsold cars in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Higher taxes on fuel and on new cars have prompted cash-strapped Spaniards to opt for two wheels instead of four. Last year, 780,000 bicycles were sold in the country \u2014 compared to 700,000 cars. That&#8217;s due to a 4 percent jump in bike sales, and a 30 percent drop in sales of new cars.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2013\/10\/06\/229287871\/car-centric-spain-begins-to-embrace-the-bicycle\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2013\/10\/06\/229287871\/car-centric-spain-begins-to-embrace-the-bicycle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time on record, bicycles have outsold cars in Spain. Higher taxes on fuel and on new cars have prompted cash-strapped Spaniards to opt for two wheels instead of four. Last year, 780,000 bicycles were sold in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=157\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Car-Centric Spain Begins To Embrace The Bicycle<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[42,40,41],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodnews","category-spcnews","tag-europe","tag-spain","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}