{"id":318,"date":"2007-12-10T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2007-12-10T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T22:50:11","slug":"where-the-rubber-meets-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Where The Rubber Meets The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slap me.\u00c2\u00a0 Hard.<\/p>\n<p>The next time I start waffling about buying a motorbike to commute to work,\u00c2\u00a0 take me to one side and remind me of this day, the 10th day in the month of December in the year of 2007 when&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The skies did open, the rain did pour and it was dark and black and wet and (to use a well known meteorologically technical phrase) the weather was well shitey.<\/p>\n<p>Just remind me how good it felt to be sitting in my stereophonic surroundings whilst the poor b&#8217;stard on his GPZ750 Ninja beside me battled his way through the harshest of harsh elements.<\/p>\n<p>Yes a bike.<\/p>\n<p>Yes a possible commuter.<\/p>\n<p>No, not for the Winter.<\/p>\n<p>Get wit&#8217; da programme B!<\/p>\n<p>Word!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slap me.\u00c2\u00a0 Hard. The next time I start waffling about buying a motorbike to commute to work,\u00c2\u00a0 take me to one side and remind me<\/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-318","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\/318","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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}