{"id":2529,"date":"2009-02-15T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2009-02-15T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T22:24:07","slug":"tour-of-california-2009-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/15\/tour-of-california-2009-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of California, 2009 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amgentourofcalifornia.com\/\">Amgen Tour of California<\/a> is arguably the kickoff of the 2009 pro cycling season for American cycling fans.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And lucky for them, there&#8217;s lots of great coverage out there on the race.\u00c2\u00a0 My three recommendations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch it live at the <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com\/\">Adobe Tourtracker<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if you don&#8217;t give a damn about cycling, you have to check this out.\u00c2\u00a0 A brilliant use of technology.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s only running from just before until just after each day&#8217;s race, so check in between noon and 4pm <strong>PST<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Use Steephill.tv&#8217;s fantastic (as usual) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steephill.tv\/tour-of-california\/\">Tour of California &#8220;dashboard&#8221;<\/a>, featuring route info, video feed links, and highlights to find and follow the action.<\/li>\n<li>Read Lyne Lamoureux&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podiuminsight.blogspot.com\/\">Podium In Sight<\/a> for thoughtful analysis, interviews, and daily pictures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be heading to watch the ToC later this week, but strictly as a fan.\u00c2\u00a0 Any interesting coverage or good shots that show up here will be little more than a happy accident, so go check out the links above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amgen Tour of California is arguably the kickoff of the 2009 pro cycling season for American cycling fans.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And lucky for them, there&#8217;s lots of great coverage out there on the race.\u00c2\u00a0 My three recommendations: Watch it live at the Adobe Tourtracker.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if you don&#8217;t give a damn about cycling, you have to [&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],"tags":[501,76,77,75],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-pro","tag-racing","tag-tour-of-california"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","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=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}