{"id":454,"date":"2015-11-25T23:12:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T05:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2015-11-25T23:12:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T05:12:25","slug":"two-reasons-to-be-looking-forward-to-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Two reasons to be looking forward to Saturday."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night we&#8217;re having our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/?p=417\">bash<\/a>\u00a0at the <a href=\"http:\/\/emporiumchicago.com\/locations\/#logan\">Emporium Arcade Bar<\/a> in Logan Square. They&#8217;ve got a ton of classic video games along with pool, shuffle board, pinball, and craft beers. We&#8217;ll be raffling off cool stuff and you can still get discounted tickets if you buy before the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Up5Uax\">Thursday<\/a>.\u00a0That&#8217;s not all though, in the morning from 10am-2pm\u00a0<a id=\"js_7c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/majortaylorchi\/\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/group.php?id=473006259461449&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D\">Major Taylor Cycling Club of Chicago<\/a> is hosting a ride in honor of Marshall &#8220;Major&#8221; Taylor&#8217;s birthday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SouthChicagoVelodromeAssociation\/\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=934064023272839&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D\">South Chicago Velodrome Association<\/a> is a start\/finish point, and we&#8217;ll be joined by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SlowRollChicago\/\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=683640068383746&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D\">Slow Roll Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marshall Walter &#8220;Major&#8221; Taylor (26 November 1878 \u2013 21 June 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6 km) track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American cyclist to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win a world championship in any sport. Mr. Taylor was buried on Chicago&#8217;s south side and we&#8217;ll be visiting his grave site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Birthday cake too? Of course!<\/p>\n<p>Please rsvp here- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/major-taylor-birthday-ride-tickets-19722798421?ref=wpwidget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/<wbr \/>e\/<wbr \/>major-taylor-birthday-ride-<wbr \/>tickets-19722798421?ref=wp<wbr \/>widget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night we&#8217;re having our\u00a0bash\u00a0at the Emporium Arcade Bar in Logan Square. They&#8217;ve got a ton of classic video games along with pool, shuffle board, pinball, and craft beers. We&#8217;ll be raffling off cool stuff and you can still get discounted tickets if you buy before the end of Thursday.\u00a0That&#8217;s not all though, in the morning from 10am-2pm\u00a0Major Taylor Cycling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}