{"id":1479,"date":"2012-06-18T08:05:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T08:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:50:28","slug":"all-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"All heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ditchlingbeacon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1480\" title=\"ditchlingbeacon\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ditchlingbeacon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ditchlingbeacon.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ditchlingbeacon-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year the British Heart Foundation persuades 27,000 people to cycle up Ditchling Beacon, giving them a big head start in London and a warmdown into Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>The British show particular enthusiasm and talent for getting some folk to jump through hoops to convince other folk to give to charity, which is why I don&#8217;t go for these sorts of events: If you want to give, just give. So I didn&#8217;t do their ride. I did the hill. (I heart hills.) Normally it&#8217;s kind of a pain with the cars. It was nice of the BHF to clear them away for me.<\/p>\n<p>Q: How many times can you cycle up and down before the officials get narked<br \/>\nA: 5.<\/p>\n<p>As this isn&#8217;t the Brighton-to-London, it&#8217;s unofficially a one-way system. Therefore I was very careful every time I went down, even gathering thanks as I moved out of people&#8217;s way (having arrived early so I could attempt this when there were fewer of them). You can&#8217;t really blame the marshalls for viewing me as an enthusiastic nuisance, but I will anyway. Because if there&#8217;s another thing the British do well, it&#8217;s radiate severe disapproval* at those who colour outside the lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/nanny.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1481\" title=\"nanny\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/nanny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/nanny.jpg 500w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/nanny-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>* Americans just shoot them and get it over with<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notanothercyclingforum.net\/index.php?topic=145.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More pics<\/a>\u00a0and d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the British Heart Foundation persuades 27,000 people to cycle up Ditchling Beacon, giving them a big head start in London and a warmdown into Brighton. The British show particular enthusiasm and talent for getting some folk to jump &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11526,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}