{"id":1396,"date":"2020-06-04T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2020-06-04T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T22:04:01","slug":"twas-brillig-and-the-cyclists-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/twas-brillig-and-the-cyclists-toes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;twas brillig and the cyclist&#8217;s toes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8217;twas brillig and the cyclist&#8217;s toes<br>\nDid spin and bimble in the rain<br>\nAll flimsy were the Shimanos<br>\nAnd the time trials of pain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beware the right-angles my son<br>\nThe hedge that hides, the stones that slip<br>\nBeware the wetness on the road<br>\nCan make you lose your grip<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He took his aero-bars in hand<br>\nLong time to Chesterton he rode<br>\nAfter mile three, eventually <br>\n&#8217;twas time those legs to load<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as he wound the power out<br>\nThe tractor-beast, with teeth attached<br>\nCame hurtling round the roundabout<br>\nMaking a noise, unmatched<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One-two, one-two &#8220;I WILL pass you&#8221;<br> The tractor-beast went loudly past<br> And in its wake, all he could make<br> Was a time not so fast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And hast thou took the KoM?<br> &#8220;Not quite&#8221; he said &#8220;It was too tough<br> Precipitous day blew me away<br> My Watts were not enough&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8217;twas brillig and the cyclist&#8217;s toes<br>\nDid spin and bimble in the rain<br>\nAll flimsy were the Shimanos<br>\nAnd the time trials of pain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8217;twas brillig and the cyclist&#8217;s toes Did spin and bimble in the rain All flimsy were the Shimanos And the time trials of pain Beware the right-angles my son The hedge that hides, the stones that slip Beware the wetness on the road Can make you lose your grip He took his aero-bars in hand <a href='http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/twas-brillig-and-the-cyclists-toes\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[126,128,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}