{"id":5718,"date":"2017-09-20T18:25:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5718"},"modified":"2017-09-20T18:25:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:25:13","slug":"bailwards-on-his-bike-again-cycling-home-from-sicily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5718","title":{"rendered":"Bailward&#8217;s on his bike again, cycling home from Sicily"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5719\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5719\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=5719\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/09\/Bailward-Sicily17.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"203,240\" 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;1505934337&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=\"Bailward Sicily17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ready for the Off&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/09\/Bailward-Sicily17.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5719\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/09\/Bailward-Sicily17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready for the Off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Horsington resident and intrepid cyclist Chris Bailward has embarked on another epic cycle ride &#8211; this time to cycle from daughter Kate&#8217;s house on the slopes of Mount Etna, Italy, all the way home to Horsington. He set off at 8am on Wednesday morning and is now on top of a hill in Calabria.<\/p>\n<p>He has been training by doing punishing 80 mile rides around Somerset and Dorset, and on the slopes of Mount Etna.<\/p>\n<p>This is his fourth cycling adventure. Previous expeditions include Lands End to John o&#8217;Groats, the <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3860\">Bailward Tour de France<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4818\">1800 mile trek around the County Towns of England.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can follow Chris&#8217;s adventures on his very entertaining<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailward.co.uk\/\"> Blog<\/a>, and the Horsington Blog will also follow him and publish highlights from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck Chris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horsington resident and intrepid cyclist Chris Bailward has embarked on another epic cycle ride &#8211; this time to cycle from daughter Kate&#8217;s house on the slopes of Mount Etna, Italy, all the way home to Horsington. He set off at 8am on Wednesday morning and is now on top of a hill in Calabria. He &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5718\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bailward&#8217;s on his bike again, cycling home from Sicily&#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-5718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1ue","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718","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=5718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5720,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions\/5720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}