{"id":4450,"date":"2014-09-22T19:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T19:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2017-05-24T15:39:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T15:39:41","slug":"line-highlights-lars-christiansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/22\/line-highlights-lars-christiansen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Line highlights Lars Christiansen and Nancy Fischer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College faculty members <a title=\"Faculty biography: Lars Christiansen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/christil\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lars Christiansen<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"Faculty biography: Nancy Fischer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/fischern\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nancy Fischer<\/strong><\/a>, known for their\u00a0avid bicycling, recently were featured in The Line, a Twin Cities-based online journal.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Christiansen describes how he and Fischer\u00a0have never been happier\u00a0living\u00a0&#8220;car-ownership-free&#8221; after selling their car two years ago and relying on their bicycles and, if necessary, the metro transit system.<\/p>\n<p>Christiansen also revealed his tips for healthy living as well as his reasoning\u00a0for choosing\u00a0a car-free lifestyle, noting that the sense of community gained in such a\u00a0lifestyle could easily be reason enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;when you ride a bus, train or bike, you\u2019re in public,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You encounter a greater diversity of people with whom you develop camaraderie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about\u00a0living car-free, read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thelinemedia.com\/features\/saygoodbyetocar09172014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">How being &#8216;car ownership free&#8217; led to healthy living, community organizing and embracing transit<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College faculty members Lars Christiansen and Nancy Fischer, known for their\u00a0avid bicycling, recently were featured in The Line, a Twin Cities-based online journal. In the article, Christiansen describes how he and Fischer\u00a0have never been happier\u00a0living\u00a0&#8220;car-ownership-free&#8221; after selling their car two years ago and relying on their bicycles and, if necessary, the metro transit system. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3234,6],"tags":[3344,1650,3355,2039,3354],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-campus-events-and-happenings","category-in-the-news","tag-bicycle","tag-lars-christiansen","tag-metro-transit-system","tag-nancy-fischer","tag-the-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7667,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions\/7667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}