{"id":670,"date":"2006-08-22T00:14:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T00:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=670"},"modified":"2006-08-22T00:14:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T00:14:23","slug":"do-i-wait-to-be-tagged-hell-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/do-i-wait-to-be-tagged-hell-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I wait to be tagged? Hell No!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rather than looking for accomodation in Glasgow (other<\/i> than sleeping at Prestwick Airport!) as I should be doing, I’m procrastinating. RA’s blog helped me waste some time tonight with this<\/a>. Souvlaki and Sardines<\/a> this may not be, but if I can just raise ?25k, I can buy the kebab shop for sale on Uxbridge Rd. No, I don’t know what I’m talking about either..<\/p>\n

Rules:<\/p>\n

1. Grab the nearest book.<\/p>\n

2. Open the book to page 123.<\/p>\n

3. Find the fifth sentence.<\/p>\n

4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences<\/p>\n

5. Don?t dare dig for that ?cool? or ?intellectual? book in your closet! <\/p>\n

This quote comes from “Tour De France – The Complete Book of the World’s Greatest Cycle Race” by Margueritte Lazell which I kinda, sorta, accidentally-ish bought on ebay the other day and which happened to be sitting right next to my laptop.<\/p>\n

Former winners Stephen Roche and Pedro Delgado were also ready for a crack at a second title, but it seemed no one could rise above the masses to earn the mark of pre-race favourite. Only the race itself could determine that. Lemond finished second in the prologue, giving him a 15-second advantage over Fignon before the real racing started. The Frenchman was not happy, and made a point of criticizing Lemond’s tactics to anyone who would listen.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rather than looking for accomodation in Glasgow (other than sleeping at Prestwick Airport!) as I should be doing, I’m procrastinating. RA’s blog helped me waste some time tonight with this. Souvlaki and Sardines this may not be, but if I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}