{"id":26,"date":"2017-07-21T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T09:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/?p=26"},"modified":"2017-07-21T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T10:55:22","slug":"2017-a-good-year-for-bikes-and-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"2017: a good year for bikes and Parkinson&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been working hard to let everyone know that this year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of\u00a0<em>An Essay on the Shaking Palsy<\/em> by James Parkinson. He was a remarkable man: an east London surgeon, apothecary, social activist and fossil hunter.<\/p>\n<p>For people with Parkinson&#8217;s, that&#8217;s not the only 2017 anniversary! It&#8217;s also 20 years since the role of the protein alpha-synuclein in some genetic forms of Parkinson&#8217;s was first elucidated.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we can neatly tie the Parkinson&#8217;s and cycling themes together because 1817 also saw the unveiling of Baron Karl von Drais&#8217;s new invention the Draisine, the first ever vehicle with two wheels in line. Here&#8217;s the Baron himself, apparently taking a pleasant tour around the Mannheim countryside:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/KarlVonDrais-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/KarlVonDrais-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/KarlVonDrais-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/KarlVonDrais-1024x828.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/KarlVonDrais-1200x970.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karl von Drais on his machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For our trip to Durham we hope to be using something a little more up-to-date&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been working hard to let everyone know that this year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of\u00a0An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by James Parkinson. He was a remarkable man: an east London surgeon, apothecary, social activist and fossil hunter. For people with Parkinson&#8217;s, that&#8217;s not the only 2017 anniversary! It&#8217;s also 20 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/?p=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2017: a good year for bikes and Parkinson&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hamilton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}