{"id":3405,"date":"2009-12-19T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2009-12-19T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T14:02:45","slug":"another-reason-for-planning-cycletubes-in-urban-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/another-reason-for-planning-cycletubes-in-urban-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"White commuting is another reason for wanting cycletubes in urban areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

It snowed yesterday. About half London took the day off and my cycle to work took twice as long. When I set off\u00a0 home the back roads were covered with icy ruts. After about 20 minutes of precarious travel I came level with a bunch of 25 teenagers wearing hoods. They moved into the road and surrounded me as I drew level. Then they pelted me with icy snowballs. I wobbled, stayed upright and had to stop to dig the snow out of my ears. My wife asked why my voice sounded hoarse when I got home.\u00a0 ‘Too much bad language at full volume’ I explained. The kids, no doubt,\u00a0 were just having fun – relieving the ennui <\/em>of urban life – but they made me wish God would release a sheaf of thunderbolts. Sadly, the morning news had nothing about lightning-strikes on groups of hoodies in South London – so I have another reason for wanting cycle tubes for green communters<\/a>. Meanwhile, I will learn the rest of the poem:<\/p>\n

Cannon to right of them,
\n Cannon to left of them,
\n Cannon in front of them
\n Volley’d and thunder’d;
\n Storm’d at with shot and shell,
\n Boldly they rode and well,
\n Into the jaws of Death,
\n Into the mouth of Hell
\n Rides the poor cyclist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It snowed yesterday. About half London took the day off and my cycle to work took twice as long. When I set off\u00a0 home the back roads were covered with icy ruts. After about 20 minutes of precarious travel I came level with a bunch of 25 teenagers wearing hoods. They moved into the road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}