{"id":1252,"date":"2008-09-09T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T00:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2008-09-09T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T00:25:12","slug":"lance-armstrongs-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/09\/lance-armstrongs-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong&#8217;s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2008\/09\/armstrong200809?printable=true&amp;currentPage=all\">he&#8217;s coming back for next year<\/a>.  Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podiumcafe.com\/2008\/9\/9\/610935\/lance-amstrong-comeback-co#comments\">lots of evidence<\/a> to the contrary, I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;ve really got much to say about it.  He&#8217;s an amazing athlete who has my respect.  I also think he&#8217;s a doper and a liar.  Go on and square those, if you can.  He says that this return is (in part) about pushing the cancer research mission of the Lance Armstrong Foundation.  Well, if that&#8217;s what&#8217;s it&#8217;s really about, good for him and all of us.  If not, well . . .<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, all that said, there&#8217;s no doubt that he&#8217;ll bring public attention back to cycling.  Nike wouldn&#8217;t make this video about anyone else:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HjcZNR6MiRE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>But that wheel, in the last seconds of the video?\u00c2\u00a0 I hope it catches him, this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, he&#8217;s coming back for next year. Despite lots of evidence to the contrary, I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;ve really got much to say about it. He&#8217;s an amazing athlete who has my respect. I also think he&#8217;s a doper and a liar. Go on and square those, if you can. He says that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-personal","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}