{"id":3948,"date":"2015-06-25T22:34:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T22:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2015-06-27T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:46:11","slug":"triumphal-re-entry-into-village-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3948","title":{"rendered":"Triumphal re-entry into village"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3950\" style=\"width: 792px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailward.co.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3950\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=3950\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/06\/Chris-13.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"792,637\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Richard&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1435133480&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chris 13\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Bailward tour  de France&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/06\/Chris-13.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3950\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/06\/Chris-13.jpg\" alt=\"The Bailward tour  de France\" width=\"792\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/06\/Chris-13.jpg 792w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/06\/Chris-13-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bailward tour de France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, he made it! Chris Bailward strolled into the bar of the Half Moon, Horsington on Thursday 25 June, punctual to the second, after a gruelling 1894 mile &#8220;Tour de France&#8221; alone, unaided, and self-funded, in aid of the Disasters Emergency Committee.<\/p>\n<p>His journey had taken him to the Alps, the Mediterranean, the vineyards of Bordeaux and the Loire, and the battlefields of Normandy. He planned the trip meticulously, and made every single one of his stages.<\/p>\n<p>A tremendous achievement, and we are sure all Horsington and South Cheriton residents will feel \u00a0vicarious \u00a0pride in his considerable feat.<\/p>\n<p>Do take the trouble to read the full account of his \u00a0travels on his very entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailward.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And please, please, donate if you can &#8211; online -via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/chris-bailward\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just Giving.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he made it! Chris Bailward strolled into the bar of the Half Moon, Horsington on Thursday 25 June, punctual to the second, after a gruelling 1894 mile &#8220;Tour de France&#8221; alone, unaided, and self-funded, in aid of the Disasters Emergency Committee. His journey had taken him to the Alps, the Mediterranean, the vineyards of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Triumphal re-entry into village&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-11G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}