{"id":12865,"date":"2015-05-06T07:20:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/?p=12865"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T19:53:01","slug":"bike-school-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/06\/bike-school-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Bike to School Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bike-to-School.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12866\" alt=\"Bike to School\" src=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bike-to-School-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bike-to-School-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bike-to-School-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bike-to-School-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bike-to-School.jpg 1921w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Today is Bike to School Day and thousands of school children will be pedaling to their destination today. We hope your kids are among them. Maybe you&#8217;ll even be riding with them!<\/p>\n<p>There are 46 Bike to School events scheduled in 18 Washington communities this year. A quick sampling includes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>La Conner Elementary<\/strong> is organizing a group ride (and walk) to school starting from Pioneer Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moses Lake&#8217;s Peninsula Elementary<\/strong> is holding its first ever Bike to School Day. Activities include adult-led bike trains, teaching parents correct helmet fits, and a bike raffle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seattle Progressive Preschool<\/strong> is one of 17 Bike to School events listed in Seattle. Parents are biking their young ones to school and participants will celebrate with stickers and snacks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vancouver&#8217;s Sacajawea Elementary<\/strong> has biking events planned throughout the week including helmet fittings and daily rewards for riding.<\/p>\n<p>View the full list of <a title=\"Who's Biking to School in WA\" href=\"http:\/\/walkbiketoschool.org\/go\/whos-biking\/2015\/WA\" target=\"_blank\">Washington&#8217;s Bike to School events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Bikes is helping youth around our state to discover the joy of riding a bike. Visit our <a title=\"Safe Routes to School\" href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/growing-bicycling\/srts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Safe Routes to School page <\/a>to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Bike to School Day and thousands of school children will be pedaling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,22,21],"tags":[222,149,306],"class_list":["post-12865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-events-wa","category-kids","category-safe-routes-to-school","tag-bike-month-2","tag-kids-2","tag-safe-routes-to-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s Bike to School Day! - Washington Bikes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bike to School Day is a national event to encourage kids to ride their bikes. 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