{"id":201,"date":"2008-01-10T08:09:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2008-01-10T08:13:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:13:36","slug":"commuter-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Commuter musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-208\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=208\" title=\"parattah-bar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/parattah-bar.jpg\" alt=\"parattah-bar.jpg\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been loving the daily commute to work, Margate via the Channel Hwy through Taroona to Hobart (27kms) and back each day.. although I may be becoming known as the &#8216;smelly guy&#8217; at work (no showers on site). Commuting is a great thing, I&#8217;ve met two single speeding roadies this week.. one guy (sorry I forgot your name) on a Langster and Jess on his Pista Solo, yarned with a few other commuters, had time to think about things other than work or domestic issues (bikes) and at the same time practise my &#8216;spin&#8217; for track. Can&#8217;t believe how much it&#8217;s improved my fitness as well, it is the best type of training eh.. each morning I race against myself, I put on the same album on my mp3 and see if I can be at a further point along the road before it finishes (I was short by about 20meters today).. And\u00a0I quite\u00a0enjoy\u00a0&#8216;duels&#8217; with other commuters, especially the\u00a0&#8216;faux-lypians&#8217; on their carbon\/titanium bikes with their shaved legs.. Haha.. nah, no disrespect, I&#8217;m just jealous.. and can&#8217;t afford an uber-bike. Oh, the picture? ^^^ What has it got to do with this post..?? Nothing really. It&#8217;s just a cool pic of a bar at Parattah next to the former Velo-track.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been loving the daily commute to work, Margate via the Channel Hwy through Taroona to Hobart (27kms) and back each day.. although I may be becoming known as the &#8216;smelly guy&#8217; at work (no showers on site). Commuting is a great thing, I&#8217;ve met two single speeding roadies this week.. one guy (sorry I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commuter musings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}