{"id":1640,"date":"2011-02-22T12:13:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T01:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2011-02-23T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T08:28:09","slug":"and-for-my-next-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2011\/02\/22\/and-for-my-next-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"And for my next trick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I shall attempt to ride up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Donna_Buang\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Learn about Mt Donna Buang\">Mount Donna Buang<\/a> this coming Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingprofiles.com.au\/HTM\/MelClimbs\/MC_DB.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Profile on Cycling Profiles\">All 16.61 kilometres of it at 6.2% grade.<\/a> It has an elevation of 1,250 m (4,101 ft) and it snows there in winter. It&#8217;s the closest mountain to Melbourne where you can go skiing in winter. I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s going to take me between 1.5 &#8211; 2 hours to ride up (and that&#8217;s being generous).<\/p>\n<p>If I can do this, the 145km <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersprint.com.au\/events\/2xu-great-ocean--otway-classic-ride-2011.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"What I'm doing next\">Great Ocean &#038; Otway Classic Ride<\/a> should be a breeze. Uh huh, right. I&#8217;ll just keep telling myself that.<\/p>\n<p>I think Master Yoda has it right on this one: <em>Do&#8230; or do not. There is no try<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I shall attempt to ride up Mount Donna Buang this coming Sunday. All 16.61 kilometres of it at 6.2% grade. It has an elevation of 1,250 m (4,101 ft) and it snows there in winter. It&#8217;s the closest mountain to Melbourne where you can go skiing in winter. I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s going to take me between 1.5 &#8211; 2 hours to ride up (and that&#8217;s <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2011\/02\/22\/and-for-my-next-trick\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[85],"tags":[477,294,338,197,341],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}