{"id":300,"date":"2009-05-20T05:36:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T05:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/an-update-from-the-front\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T05:36:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T05:36:24","slug":"an-update-from-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/an-update-from-the-front\/","title":{"rendered":"An update from the front"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/3537898240\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2136\/3537898240_2f05bfb577.jpg?w=768\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/3537898240\/\">Now with panniers<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/mattcashmore\/\">mattcashmore<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve finally had a few weeks back in Australia and it&#8217;s all starting to feel more like home than a place I happen to be spending some time. Part of that is all the gear turning up for the bike, and the other bit is my brother coming to stay!<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s moved in and has his feet well and truly under the table \ud83d\ude09 But I don&#8217;t mind (he&#8217;s a qualified chef, and a rather good one at that). Of course all of this would come as I&#8217;m starting to take this fitness lark seriously &#8211; I&#8217;m aiming to take part in the <a href=http:\/\/www.australasiansafari.com.au\/\">Austalasian Safari<\/a> in two years time &#8211; that&#8217;s going to take 12 months to drop my weight to a sensible level and 12 months of serious enduro training.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all the best laid plans and all that&#8230; but we&#8217;ll see what happens, regardless of what I do I aim to be doing something &#8216;big&#8217; in 2011\/2012 depending on what hemisphere I&#8217;m in.<\/p>\n<p>More videos on the way now I&#8217;ve found my way around the new Canon HG20 HD Camera, and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already seen some of the first photos <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\">appearing on flickr<\/a> from the new Lumix G1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now with panniers, originally uploaded by mattcashmore. I&#8217;ve finally had a few weeks back in Australia and it&#8217;s all starting to feel more like home than a place I happen to be spending some time. Part of that is all the gear turning up for the bike, and the other bit is my brother coming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/an-update-from-the-front\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An update from the front&#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-300","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\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}