{"id":106,"date":"2007-08-12T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2007-08-12T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T16:44:17","slug":"where-it-all-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/where-it-all-began\/","title":{"rendered":"Where it all began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered where it all began. Where and when did I first get interested in Motorbikes. Was it because my next door neighbour when I was very young had a very very loud Kwack that would wake the whole street every  morning? For years I thought that was it, the excitement of running to my bedroom window and seeing the super cool neighbour blasting into the morning sun&#8230; but no.. I was wrong&#8230; it all began here;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/1094690570\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1217\/1094690570_88d5af335e.jpg?resize=500%2C373\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" alt=\"A very young me on a scooter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered where it all began. Where and when did I first get interested in Motorbikes. Was it because my next door neighbour when I was very young had a very very loud Kwack that would wake the whole street every morning? For years I thought that was it, the excitement of running to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/where-it-all-began\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where it all began&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}