{"id":1366,"date":"2015-11-08T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2015-11-08T18:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T18:02:34","slug":"easy-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Easy Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well not quite with our travels I&#8217;ve been out of the saddle for a while so a bit of a shock to the system to get back on the bike today! A real windy day\u00a0so it has been hard work especially climbing Frocester Hill into the wind!<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed our week in Turkey and visited some beautiful mosques and wonderful historic places that I have mentioned previously. Turkey itself appears to be at something of a crossroads following last week&#8217;s election. To me it is disappointing that the strengths of\u00a0a secular \u00a0republic founded by Kemal Ataturk seemed to be being dismantled by the current president who is pursuing a policy of divide and rule.<\/p>\n<p>I now need to work on learning stories for my November Gigs and start thinking of the Christmas ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well not quite with our travels I&#8217;ve been out of the saddle for a while so a bit of a shock to the system to get back on the bike today! A real windy day\u00a0so it has been hard work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-m2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}