{"id":5730,"date":"2016-01-12T15:47:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:50:24","slug":"the-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/money\/made-in-massachusetts-seven-cycles\/37381730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5732 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WCVB-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Video still showing Sevens on WCVB\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WCVB-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WCVB-400x246.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WCVB.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/money\/made-in-massachusetts-seven-cycles\/37381730\">We were on the local news last night<\/a>, part of a series called &#8220;Made in Mass,&#8221; features on companies that still make things in Massachusetts. The piece ran just short of two minutes and didn&#8217;t say a whole lot that cyclists who are familiar with our work didn&#8217;t already know. We were glad to be featured, though it is a little frightening that simply making things makes you newsworthy now.<\/p>\n<p>It was also very cool to engage with the reporter&#8217;s curiosity about how we do what we do, and the response from friends and family has been overwhelming. It reminded us of when we were kids, perhaps not coincidentally the time when our bikes first became central to our lives, the way being on TV was still some act of magic.<\/p>\n<p><!--210712 Kirk removed this line - broken link. For another cool peek at what we do, check out this video, made by our friend Ryota at Simworks, Japan.--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were on the local news last night, part of a series called &#8220;Made in Mass,&#8221; features on companies that still make things in Massachusetts. The piece ran just short of two minutes and didn&#8217;t say a whole lot that cyclists who are familiar with our work didn&#8217;t already know. We were glad to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-local-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Local News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,784,785,5,783],"class_list":["post-5730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-history","tag-local-news","tag-made-in-mass","tag-press","tag-wcvb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17910,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions\/17910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}