{"id":20536,"date":"2015-11-29T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20536"},"modified":"2015-11-29T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:50:27","slug":"whats-with-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/whats-with-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s with the Weather?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite feeling fairly ill this morning and the fact that once again early on a\u00a0Sunday morning it was pouring with rain and blowing a gale, I decided to &#8216;Man Up&#8217; and go for my planned bike ride anyway. My reasoning was that I was up and out of bed, but I was feeling ill. However, as a cyclist I quite enjoy cycling so I may as well feel ill whilst riding my bike. 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