{"id":1844,"date":"2018-06-21T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2018-06-21T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:18:49","slug":"colchester-causeway-renovated-into-vermonts-first-monster-truck-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/21\/colchester-causeway-renovated-into-vermonts-first-monster-truck-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Colchester Causeway Renovated into Vermont\u2019s First Monster Truck Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLCHESTER &#8211;\u00a0After several months of closure and subsequent reconstruction, the Colchester Causeway is back, bigger and better than ever before. Officials are stoked to announce that the causeway, which once served as a bike path connecting Colchester and the Hero Islands, has been widened, reinforced with a concrete foundation, and outfitted with sick jumps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure, the old bike path was a classic,\u201d stated Mayor Gerard Oxford, as he sipped a Monster Energy drink. \u201cBut for this new and improved causeway, we wanted to up the stakes a bit \u2013 change the game, y\u2019know? We\u2019ve already got bike paths all over the place. I mean, the whole damn state is basically one big bike path. But nobody\u2019s ever done a monster truck path before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colchester residents are amped up about the newly renovated causeway. \u201cHell yeah,\u201d said local insurance agent Kip Morris. \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to do donuts in the middle of Lake Champlain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, officials report that the Island Line Bike Ferry has been replaced by a high-speed rocket boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>COLCHESTER &#8211;\u00a0After several months of closure and subsequent reconstruction, the Colchester Causeway is back, bigger and better than ever before. Officials are stoked to announce <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/21\/colchester-causeway-renovated-into-vermonts-first-monster-truck-path\/\" title=\"Colchester Causeway Renovated into Vermont\u2019s First Monster Truck Path\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[42],"coauthors":[90],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vermont-life","tag-colchester"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TWFI-2018_06_21.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-tK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}