{"id":965,"date":"2015-06-12T19:08:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T19:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/?p=965"},"modified":"2016-06-20T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:29:25","slug":"prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re down to 9 crazed cyclists this year in our pursuit to dominate the Alps.Last year it was the Swiss Alps\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/swisschallenge2009.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/swisschallenge2009.blogspot.com\/<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0 This year we take our attack to the French Alps.\u00a0 Obviously, this bravado doesn\u2019t really befit a bunch of 50+ year old men, and it would be fair to observe we consistently talk a better game than we cycle.\u00a0 We\u2019ll likely be crippled with cramps and begging for mercy well before we complete our itinerary.\u00a0 What can we say?\u00a0 It\u2019s a man thing, or a cyclist thing, and we\u2019ll still be grinning long after the pain subsides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re down to 9 crazed cyclists this year in our pursuit to dominate the Alps.Last year it was the Swiss Alps\u00a0http:\/\/swisschallenge2009.blogspot.com\/\u00a0.\u00a0 This year we take our attack to the French Alps.\u00a0 Obviously, this bravado doesn\u2019t really befit a bunch of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/?p=965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","tag-frenchalps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-Photo-Sep-17-2013-959-AM.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3QqGi-prologue","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}