{"id":56,"date":"2007-02-08T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T09:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2007-02-08T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T09:08:44","slug":"im-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/im-an-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m an idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to get in this morning because I had a really important meeting that I really didn&#8217;t want to miss&#8230; so even though the snow is a foot deep &#8211; I checked the BBC Jam Cams for Central London and decided to give it a go.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only cost me an alternator plate on the bike,  when I dropped it getting it back to the house&#8230; it&#8217;s still coming down really heavily here and I&#8217;m expecting another foot or so over the next couple of hours, I get the feeling had I not got back now, it would have cost me a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to rant about how stupid car drivers are in the snow &#8211; especially 4&#215;4 drivers who think they are invincible&#8230; but I can&#8217;t say what I want to say in polite company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/383529864\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/140\/383529864_1779b70a0e.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"M25 Junction\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to get in this morning because I had a really important meeting that I really didn&#8217;t want to miss&#8230; so even though the snow is a foot deep &#8211; I checked the BBC Jam Cams for Central London and decided to give it a go. It&#8217;s only cost me an alternator plate on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/im-an-idiot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m an idiot&#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-56","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\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}