{"id":13908,"date":"2025-07-03T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13908"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:03:15","slug":"kids-on-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/03\/kids-on-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids On Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2025\/07\/kids-biking-decline\/683377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/erin-sagen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Erin Sagen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/cLVp55uWNfBA7AEiIk21PdIllE0=\/0x0:6400x3600\/960x540\/media\/img\/mt\/2025\/06\/Atlantic_Bikes_4\/original.jpg\" alt=\"A line of four kids biking, with the bicycles of the last two fading away\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Illustration by Maddie Fischer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Walk down a quiet American street a few decades ago, and chances were good that you\u2019d come across a vision of the Spielbergian sort: a gaggle of school-age children charging down the block on bikes, armed with a steely sense of purpose, and without any protective headwear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019re less likely to catch that kind of scene today. Over the course of the 1990s, an average of 20.5 million children ages 7 to 17 hopped on a bike six or more times a year, according to data from the National Sporting Goods Association, a sports-equipment trade group. Only a few decades later, that number has fallen by nearly half, to about 10.9 million in 2023. Of those kids, according to the association, just less than 5 percent rode their bikes \u201cfrequently.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2025\/07\/kids-biking-decline\/683377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Atlantic<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore. By\u00a0Erin Sagen Walk down a quiet American street a few decades ago, and chances were good that you\u2019d come across a vision of the Spielbergian sort: a gaggle of school-age children charging down the block on bikes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}