{"id":20,"date":"2008-06-13T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T20:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-06-23T17:42:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T00:42:33","slug":"having-loads-of-fun-only-2-things-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Having Loads of Fun, Only 2 Things Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who doubt we&#8217;re having a great time let me just be perfectly   crystal:  We are both having a grand time as we ride\u00ac\u2020across\u00ac\u2020the   beautiful Irish landscape.  Just remember, I love a good challenge,   except when death is in the line.  Today we road 2\/3 of the way from   Athlone to Galway and made our stop over for the night in Lough Rea, a   town in the lake if the same name.  This was the most straight forward   of any journey as we were able to finally use the expressway which   here is only one lane each way.  What sucked was the\u00ac\u20204 km\u00ac\u2020stretch were   the road narrowed and thus made our ample 5 foot wide shoulder   decrease to less than 6&#8243;.  We thus wisely got off of our bikes and   walked for an hour and a half in the tall grass to avoid being hit by   big rigs and buses which would have been less than  a foot a way and   going more than\u00ac\u2020100 kph.<br \/>\nThe other &#8220;suck&#8221; I refer to in the title is the river Suck, yes a   river by the name of Suck , which  I found most hilarious.  When we   crossed we noticed traffic was really slow so we dismounted and upon   closer inspection saw a funeral precession marching through the middle   of the highway.  I do mean marching too, they were walking straight   down the middle of the highway and caused a backup which stretched for   many kilometers in both directions, quite a sight to behold.  They   were headed toward a grave yard we had passed earlier with a ruined   church which is today&#8217;s attached picture.  I still find it interesting   that they place graves inside the ruins if old churches.<\/p>\n<p><!--Mime Type of File is image\/jpeg --><\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-image-div\"><img class=\"postie-image\" style=\"none;\" src=\"http:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/wp-photos\/20080613-131330-1.jpg\" alt=\"photo.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who doubt we&#8217;re having a great time let me just be perfectly crystal: We are both having a grand time as we ride\u00ac\u2020across\u00ac\u2020the beautiful Irish landscape. Just remember, I love a good challenge, except when death is in the line. Today we road 2\/3 of the way from Athlone to Galway and made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwill.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}