{"id":725,"date":"2008-04-06T19:58:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T00:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/06\/for-the-record\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T19:58:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T00:58:21","slug":"for-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/06\/for-the-record\/","title":{"rendered":"For the record . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of pro cycling&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slipstreamsports.com\/\">Slipstream<\/a> team.\u00c2\u00a0 Great athletes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slipstreamsports.com\/category\/race-updates\/\">open approach<\/a>, wonderful sense of humility.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, I (and occasional Blacknell.net contributor MJ)\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyrics007.com\/The%20Cure%20Lyrics\/Jumping%20Someone%20Else's%20Train%20Lyrics.html\">liked them when they were still exclusively a domestic threat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why I am making a point of stating that, here? Well, by the time we get through this year&#8217;s Tour de France, the US rightsholder for the race (i.e., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versus.com\/cyclysm\/\">Versus cable network<\/a>) will have spent 80% of its airtime jocking them so hard that it will be near impossible not to hate them by the time it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p>So.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davezabriskie.com\/\">DZ<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnusbackstedt.com\/\">Magnus<\/a> (umm, has management seen your site, lately?), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_Vande_Velde\">Christian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Millar\">Millar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tyler_Farrar\">Tyler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliandean.co.nz\/\">Julian<\/a>, Vaughters &#8211; I really dig you guys and what you&#8217;re doing.\u00c2\u00a0 I apologize in advance for hating you come late July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of pro cycling&#8217;s Slipstream team.\u00c2\u00a0 Great athletes, open approach, wonderful sense of humility.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, I (and occasional Blacknell.net contributor MJ)\u00c2\u00a0 liked them when they were still exclusively a domestic threat. Why I am making a point of stating that, here? Well, by the time we get through this year&#8217;s Tour de [&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":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}