{"id":230,"date":"2008-07-24T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=230"},"modified":"2008-07-24T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T17:42:00","slug":"down-sides-to-cycle-commuting-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2008\/07\/24\/down-sides-to-cycle-commuting-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Down sides to cycle commuting #1 &amp; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/cjtc.gif\" title=\"This avatar has nothing to do with the post but I haven't used it in ages, mostly because it has sweary words in it. Oh, and this is the guy going to be playing Deadpool in the Wolverine movie!\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>There aren&#8217;t many. Today there were two. Both involving death on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Road kill. Cars kill beasts, and cyclists are left to ride through the miasma of their rotting corpses. This morning it was a fox, and it had been fairly thoroughly shredded: probably in the wee hours of this morning, judging by the smell. The day was just beginning to heat up so it hadn&#8217;t had time to get going properly on the whole festering lark.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Probably not one for the men: getting home and removing one&#8217;s bra to discover bugs killed by being squashed between boob and bra. I mean, I suppose some men fantasise about being crushed to death by 32DD bosoms, but I&#8217;m fairly sure that the flattened aphid I discovered had met its untimely end in my cleavage didn&#8217;t have the brain cells for pornographic fantasies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There aren&#8217;t many. Today there were two. Both involving death on the roads. (1) Road kill. Cars kill beasts, and cyclists are left to ride through the miasma of their rotting corpses. 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