{"id":1381,"date":"2009-07-03T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T08:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2009-07-03T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T08:05:41","slug":"le-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/le-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"le Tour."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my fan out there in internet land, this blog <em>MAY<\/em> slow down a little in the next few weeks due to the fact that in a little over 24 hours, a few blokes will race push bikes around France. One of the few disadvantages of living at GPS coordinates -34.9,150.7 is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letour.fr\/us\/homepage_horscourseTDF.html\" target=\"blank\">Tour de France<\/a> is on late at night here. Usually starting transmission at 10PM and winding up at about 2am. Sadly, this coincides with the times I do most of my posting to the blog. So, if you find things a little slow, why not have a look at the Tour. Even better, check out the fantastic photos at The Boston Globes site, The Big Picture. One set <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/07\/2008_tour_de_france.html\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a>, and another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/07\/2008_tour_de_france_conclusion.html\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.boston.com\/universal\/site_graphics\/blogs\/bigpicture\/tdf_07_14\/tdf12.jpg\" alt=\"Didi.\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a92008 REUTERS\/Bogdan Cristel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.boston.com\/universal\/site_graphics\/blogs\/bigpicture\/tdf_07_14\/tdf10.jpg\" alt=\"Horsepower.\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u00a92008 Jasper Juinen\/Getty Images<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.boston.com\/universal\/site_graphics\/blogs\/bigpicture\/tdf_07_28\/tdf11.jpg\" alt=\"Downhill.\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span>\u00a92008 AP Photo\/Bas Czerwinski<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from above, there are some wonderful photos of what is a stunning piece of the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my fan out there in internet land, this blog MAY slow down a little in the next few weeks due to the fact that in a little over 24 hours, a few blokes will race push bikes around France. One of the few disadvantages of living at GPS coordinates -34.9,150.7 is that the Tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","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":[1],"tags":[263,386,801,899,1128],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cycling","tag-france","tag-peleton","tag-push-bikes","tag-tour-de-france"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-mh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}