{"id":76,"date":"2007-10-15T12:39:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T02:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2007-10-15T14:12:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T04:12:49","slug":"dutch-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-79\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=79\" title=\"knoppies\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-79\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=79\" title=\"knoppies\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bandc3.jpg\" alt=\"knoppies\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Elite cycling and performance enhancing drugs are almost synonymous. Rasmussen, Vinokourov, Landis, EPO, Testosterone, Nandrolone.. but what about amateur cycling? Is it tarred with the same drug fuelled brush??<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Anecdotally, I&#8217;d say yes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Think back to the first time you attempted a large drop on your Mountain Bike.. had you consumed a few cans first? What about the first mono you ever pulled?? Was it done outside a pub after midnight??? Or think of the circumstances surrounding your first successful skid on a fixie.. did it involve consuming half a dozen pints at Knopwoods on a Friday arvo????<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Without performance enhancing drugs many of us would never have progressed past bunny-hopping the curb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elite cycling and performance enhancing drugs are almost synonymous. Rasmussen, Vinokourov, Landis, EPO, Testosterone, Nandrolone.. but what about amateur cycling? Is it tarred with the same drug fuelled brush?? Anecdotally, I&#8217;d say yes. Think back to the first time you attempted a large drop on your Mountain Bike.. had you consumed a few cans first? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dutch Courage&#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\/76"}],"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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}