{"id":345,"date":"2006-12-26T21:27:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T08:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:35:22","slug":"boxing-day-biking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day Biking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"602\" style=\"margin: 5px\" width=\"400\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/IMG_2002_400x602.shkl.JPG\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After the excesses of Christmas Day, of which there were several, who can resist the lure of the open road under a bright blue sky to blow away the cobwebs?&#160; The sound of the cicadas, the smell of the pines and eucalypts and feel of the warm air wafting by brought smiles to the face of No.3 and I as we pedaled around the valley, exploring roads and tracks we&#8217;d never been down before.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"602\" style=\"margin: 5px\" width=\"400\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/IMG_2006_400x602.shkl.JPG\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Out by the old trotting track, we crossed the main freight line.&#160; I paused on the crossing to ponder how different my daily commute might be if passenger services still came this far rather than terminate two stations south.&#160; There&#8217;s a glimmer of hope with track upgrading currently taking place and rumours of extending services further north in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the excesses of Christmas Day, of which there were several, who can resist the lure of the open road under a bright blue sky to blow away the cobwebs?&#160; The sound of the cicadas, the smell of the pines and eucalypts and feel of the warm air wafting by brought smiles to the face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-places"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893228,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/216893228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}