{"id":110,"date":"2007-09-25T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T11:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2011-07-11T09:36:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T08:36:43","slug":"back-in-the-uss-um-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/back-in-the-uss-um-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the USS&#8230; um K?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in blighty &#8211; not only that but I&#8217;m back in London as it all seems to be kicking off. Grabbed a copy of MCN on the way out of the country a few weeks ago and caught a large article proclaiming to be organising a ride through Central London to let the government know what we think about road pricing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/londonbikers.com\/articles\/50ed07f5-b7c9-4e0f-8095-c0c0068455bc\">londonbikers.com have a great article<\/a> explaining why RiderConnect and MCN have teamed up to deal with this issue &#8211; it&#8217;s worth a quick read &#8211; but what gets me, and what worries me is why MCN are involved. I have a horrible feeling it&#8217;s only to increase their circulation rather than do any good. It&#8217;s that dreadful double edged sword of getting into bed with any red top&#8230; you get wonderful publicity, but you&#8217;re also sleeping with the Devil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rider-connect.com\/index.php?q=node\/1204\">It&#8217;s a great cause<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll be there with the others ready to have my voice, or engine, heard outside No. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in blighty &#8211; not only that but I&#8217;m back in London as it all seems to be kicking off. Grabbed a copy of MCN on the way out of the country a few weeks ago and caught a large article proclaiming to be organising a ride through Central London to let the government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/back-in-the-uss-um-k\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back in the USS&#8230; um K?&#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":[16,26,32,33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-morocco","category-rideforrights","category-touring","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","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=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}