{"id":98627302,"date":"2008-02-16T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=98627302"},"modified":"2008-02-16T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T12:28:22","slug":"scot-smashes-world-cycle-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=98627302","title":{"rendered":"Scot smashes world cycle record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Beaumont, from Fife, completed the journey in 195 days &#8211; beating the previous record of 276 days.<br \/>\nThe 25-year-old crossed the finish line at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris at 1430 GMT after an 18,000-mile journey which began on 5 August last year.<br \/>\nMr Beaumont passed through 20 countries on his way, including Pakistan, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and the US.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHe endured floods and road rage, and was knocked off his bike in the American state of Louisiana by an elderly motorist who drove through a red light.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/edinburgh_and_east\/7245381.stm\">https:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/edinburgh_and_east\/7245381.stm<\/a>oldId.20080216122822314<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Beaumont, from Fife, completed the journey in 195 days &#8211; beating the previous record of 276 days. The 25-year-old crossed the finish line at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris at 1430 GMT after an 18,000-mile journey which began on 5 August last year. Mr Beaumont passed through 20 countries on his way, including &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=98627302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scot smashes world cycle record&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98627302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98627302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98627302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98627302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98627302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98627302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98627302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}