{"id":687,"date":"2006-12-13T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2006-12-17T22:53:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T21:53:24","slug":"fun-with-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I used <em>last<\/em> Christmas&#8217;s present and went to drive soeone else&#8217;s Discovery around a muddy field, and very good fun it was too. Acclerating to go slower, braking to go faster, axle-deep in mud. Finding out how (and how not) to hillstart off road, and avoiding the bemused sheep.The drive there was Ok too: reasonable M40, and some nice <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_speed_limit\">NSL<\/a> roads not choked with traffic around <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaydon\">Gaydon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Almost (but not quite) made up for the sidewall cut in one tyre from Walsall&#8217;s shitty roads the other day. Now just <i>how<\/i> much are Continental Sport Contact in 205\/45 16 again? Far too much. Wheel looks OK though.<\/p>\n<p>[edit]<br \/>\nThe answer is: not much change from \u00a3100 :-(. At least it was 3\/4 worn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I used last Christmas&#8217;s present and went to drive soeone else&#8217;s Discovery around a muddy field, and very good fun it was too. Acclerating to go slower, braking to go faster, axle-deep in mud. Finding out how (and how not) to hillstart off road, and avoiding the bemused sheep.The drive there was Ok too: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fun With Cars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-driving","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}