{"id":58,"date":"2007-02-22T22:21:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T22:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-02-22T22:21:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T22:21:03","slug":"the-battle-draws-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/the-battle-draws-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle draws to an end&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; no I&#8217;m talking about some big Hollywood blockbuster, I&#8217;m talking about the English weather. For the last four months we&#8217;ve been hit with rain, wind, snow, hail, ice, slippery leaves, not to mention a whole host of other strange weather like raining sand. <\/p>\n<p>But now the end is near, we&#8217;re towards the end of February and that means only one thing&#8230; warmer weather, dryer roads and slicker tyres. I left work for the first time today in the light, it was wonderful, I very nearly went for a blast around the lanes. Had it not been for the rain then I think I would have. There&#8217;s another point, now we&#8217;re past the worst of winter it&#8217;s actually getting warmer, which means when it does rain it&#8217;s not mixed with the evil salt that the council sees fit to contaminate the roads with.<\/p>\n<p>So the battle draws to an end, the English weather can try as hard as it likes, but it will never stop me riding (unless it snows REALLY heavily).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/383529031\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/132\/383529031_f443b19eda.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Frozen\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; no I&#8217;m talking about some big Hollywood blockbuster, I&#8217;m talking about the English weather. For the last four months we&#8217;ve been hit with rain, wind, snow, hail, ice, slippery leaves, not to mention a whole host of other strange weather like raining sand. But now the end is near, we&#8217;re towards the end of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/the-battle-draws-to-an-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The battle draws to an end&#8230;&#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-58","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\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}