{"id":355,"date":"2010-06-15T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/?p=355"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T10:35:12","slug":"a-bike-called-jedward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/a-bike-called-jedward\/","title":{"rendered":"A bike called Jedward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, I don&#8217;t really have anything much to say about curry at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been ages since I had one and I think I&#8217;m beginning to forget what they taste like.\u00c2\u00a0 Tragic.<\/p>\n<p>But on to Ebay &#8211; I just put <a title=\"No panic bidding please\" href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.co.uk\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=250651708617\">this advert <\/a>on there, for Jedward my faithful steed:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A bike called Jedward<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s called Jedward because he&#8217;s crap.\u00c2\u00a0 When I bought him he was crap.\u00c2\u00a0 The brakes didn&#8217;t really work in the wet &#8211; as I hurtled to my doom they made a distant mooing sound, like a cow in the next field.\u00c2\u00a0 The tyres were falling to bits and both the back and front wheels were buckled.\u00c2\u00a0 But then I found another bike that was going to be chucked in a skip and, using bits from another junker and Jedward, I managed to cobble together something that was rubbish but wouldn&#8217;t actually kill me the next time there was a bit of drizzle in the air.\u00c2\u00a0 Which leaves Jedward, who was crap at the best of times, and now even crapper than when I bought him because he&#8217;s had all the 1\/4 decent bits taken off and replaced with the 1\/8th decent bits from the skip-rescued one.<\/p>\n<p>So what are you bidding on?\u00c2\u00a0 All the bits that make up a bike are there.\u00c2\u00a0 All you need to do is tighten everything up and you&#8217;ve got yourself a death-trap that no-one in their right mind would ride without the legally-binding promise, signed by at least 4 gods, of 200 virgins waiting for him (or her) on the other side.\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously, you don&#8217;t want to ride this one home and I purposely left everything loose so he&#8217;s un-rideable.\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s good about him?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, the frame and forks aren&#8217;t too bad and the dust covers on the tyre valves are in tip top condition.\u00c2\u00a0 Other than that, he&#8217;s crap.<\/p>\n<p>No panic bidding please.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fuzzyblobs.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=3232&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, I don&#8217;t really have anything much to say about curry at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been ages since I had one and I think I&#8217;m beginning to forget what they taste like.\u00c2\u00a0 Tragic. But on to Ebay &#8211; I just put this advert on there, for Jedward my faithful steed: A bike called Jedward He&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,88,89],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bastards-bastards-bastards","tag-bike","tag-jedward","tag-moo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naich.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}