{"id":415,"date":"2009-05-11T06:20:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2009-05-11T06:20:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:20:01","slug":"first-ride-back-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"First ride back in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cycle power.<\/p>\n<p>Still no engined locomotion, just two legs and a razor blade that&#8217;s called a saddle. Start out nice and easy, after all, this is the first ride since, well, since I can&#8217;t remember when, about 5 years ago. Certainly the cycle has remained in it&#8217;s packing all the time I was in the USA, because even with the best intentions to get fit, use the bikes, there was always something else to do.<\/p>\n<p>So, 20 miles. Starting from city suburbs the first issue is traffic, lots of it, I&#8217;m wearing a hi vis jacket, but if drivers can&#8217;t see a huge motorcycle sometimes with lights on what chance a cyclist. Then there&#8217;s the roads, cyclists confined to scuttling in the gutters. Finally, I&#8217;m starting out with a twisted knee, so pain will be my partner, even on the flat bits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycle power. Still no engined locomotion, just two legs and a razor blade that&#8217;s called a saddle. Start out nice and easy, after all, this is the first ride since, well, since I can&#8217;t remember when, about 5 years ago. Certainly the cycle has remained in it&#8217;s packing all the time I was in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}