{"id":80,"date":"2007-06-01T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/age_of_the_bicy\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T13:04:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T13:04:45","slug":"age_of_the_bicy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/le-tour\/age_of_the_bicy\/","title":{"rendered":"age of the bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K1nYWIfwm7k\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"transparent\" name=\"wmode\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"350\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K1nYWIfwm7k\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>What a fun little video, made by London Transport &#8211; it really does the business. I think London might actually be starting to be a little bit more bike friendly. After July 7th bombings the number of bicycles in London ballooned, my friend Andy said that there were a couple of days when some bike shops were short on stock. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is the opportunity to talk about Matt Seaton who writes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,,2091666,00.html\">column<\/a> in the guardian and who wrote one of the finest books about cycling I&#8217;ve ever read, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Escape-Artist-Life-Saddle\/dp\/1841151041\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2\/202-8362141-0432619?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1180699207&amp;sr=8-2\"><em>The Escape Artist<\/em><\/a>, a superb book, an autobiography of a cyclist. Its a moving book, dealing in parts with the death of his partner, the writer Ruth Picardie. a recommended read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a fun little video, made by London Transport &#8211; it really does the business. I think London might actually be starting to be a little bit more bike friendly. After July 7th bombings the number of bicycles in London ballooned, my friend Andy said that there were a couple of days when some bike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}