{"id":519,"date":"2012-03-22T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/?p=519"},"modified":"2024-01-29T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T23:46:08","slug":"solo-ride-around-braintree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Solo ride around Braintree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A glorious ride in perfect weather involving apple pie and cream at Rayne tea room and a very good two course lunch for \u00a37.50 at the Compasses, Pattiswick. There was plenty of interesting wildlife: three fallow deer, at least two buzzards, a kestrel, a good view of a green woodpecker and loads of colourful pheasants, partridges, and even a few guinea fowl. The day was marred rather by my witnessing the birth and gruesome death of a piglet, victim of its own kind. Knowing in advance that such things happen does not prepare you for seeing it happen, largely, I suppose, because a new-born piglet looks so very human. I did not have bacon for lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glorious ride in perfect weather involving apple pie and cream at Rayne tea room and a very good two course lunch for \u00a37.50 at the Compasses, Pattiswick. There was plenty of interesting wildlife: three fallow deer, at least two buzzards, a kestrel, a good view of a green woodpecker and loads of colourful pheasants, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}