{"id":2966,"date":"2010-03-17T20:09:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2013-11-29T00:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T00:20:27","slug":"leeds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2966","title":{"rendered":"Leeds 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with travelling? How can it take massively longer to do the outward leg of a journey than the return leg?<\/p>\n<p>I left home at 6.30am and got to my destination, 200.45 miles away at 11.10. The return leg took exactly 3hrs 15min.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly I had two &#8216;toilet break&#8217; stops on the way up but they were five minute affairs &#8211; out, wee, coffee, in, go (drink on the go), whereas the return trip had no stops.<\/p>\n<p>But four and a half hours vs 3 and a quarter hours?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, because I am slightly geeky nerdy bloke (why did you chortle over the word &#8216;slightly&#8217;?), I just wanted to share my mileage with you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>400.9 miles, round trip<\/li>\n<li>33.56 litres\/diesel expended, equals<\/li>\n<li>54.41 miles per gallon (or if you&#8217;re from the United States, 65.34 mpg), at a<\/li>\n<li>\u00a3\/mile cost of \u00a30.10p<\/li>\n<li>Driving style: as per my advanced motorbike instruction &#8211; very hard\/fast acceleration up to the speed limit, then sit there at 30\/40\/50\/70 (or whatever).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smugness abounds here, oh yes, there is much smug in this house tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with travelling? How can it take massively longer to do the outward leg of a journey than the return leg? I left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}