{"id":297,"date":"2010-07-29T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-07-29T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T23:59:08","slug":"the-aliens-have-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"The aliens have landed."},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday has come to mean a long ride, and a long ride it was – 72 miles in fact. Highlights were the fantastic houses around Compton Pouncefoot<\/span> and South Cadbury<\/span> and a bright green dot that followed me along the road in Street. I was a<\/span> bit perplexed at first until I realised it must be a kid playing with a laser pointer from his room. Had to admire his commitment as it followed me for a good few 100 meters! Another strange moment was a guy pulling alongside me, winding his window down and saying “That’s a bloody bright light you have there son” then driving off. And quite right he was! Reached the pub to meet the Shipham<\/span> MTB guys and had a quick drink then headed back. The cycle across the top (Mendip<\/span> Motorway) was a little knackering – I think not only was it a long ride but I also should have got more fuel in me earlier on, as I was running low by the end of it. Here is the route:<\/span><\/p>\n

A long one<\/a><\/strong>
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Thursday has come to mean a long ride, and a long ride it was – 72 miles in fact. Highlights were the fantastic houses around Compton Pouncefoot and South Cadbury and a bright green dot that followed me along the road in Street. I was a bit perplexed at first until I realised it must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,3],"tags":[102,10,17,91,101,96,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}