{"id":4394,"date":"2009-05-18T07:23:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T11:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2009-05-18T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T11:23:01","slug":"only-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/only-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"only in Scotland &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/tayside_and_central\/8054215.stm\">Tyre sabotage brings race to halt<\/a><br \/>\nPolice are investigating after carpet tacks were spread across roads bringing a major cycle race to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few reasons why sabotaging the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etapecaledonia.co.uk\/\">\u00c3\u2030tape Caledonia<\/a> was wrong:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it&#8217;s a charity event &#8211; it was supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macmillan.org.uk\/Home.aspx\">Macmillan Cancer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s the only mass-start bike race of its kind in the UK<\/li>\n<li>the roads were closed for <em>three whole hours<\/em>; c&#8217;mon people, it&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s days of inconvenience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/tayside_and_central\/8055240.stm\">the race will go on<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyre sabotage brings race to halt Police are investigating after carpet tacks were spread across roads bringing a major cycle race to a halt. Just a few reasons why sabotaging the \u00c3\u2030tape Caledonia was wrong: it&#8217;s a charity event &#8211; it was supporting Macmillan Cancer it&#8217;s the only mass-start bike race of its kind in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[77,1561,1559,1560],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","category-the-old-country","tag-bike","tag-charity","tag-race","tag-tack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-18S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}