{"id":45035,"date":"2011-02-23T19:31:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T02:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45035"},"modified":"2011-02-23T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T02:31:37","slug":"greg-lowe-why-cycling-in-bangkok-is-suited-only-for-the-suicidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45035","title":{"rendered":"Greg Lowe: Why cycling in Bangkok is suited only for the suicidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;\">I was having a conversation with someone in the pub the other night who explained that Thai for cyclist, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153khon ki jakayaan,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d also loosely translates into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lemming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; a breed of death-lusting gerbils with a reputation for diving off cliffs onto pointy, jagged rocks.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was an astonishing revelation. I was totally hooked by the discussion, until the said bar fly-cum-linguist pointed out other alleged synonyms for our velo-centric friends such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Guardian reader\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153toss pots.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At this stage I realized my leg was being yanked, but why let a bad joke in a fictitious conversation that took place in a pub that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist get in the way of things\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnngo.com\/bangkok\/life\/greg-lowe-why-cycling-bangkok-suited-only-suicidal-648283\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a conversation with someone in the pub the other night who explained that Thai for cyclist, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153khon ki jakayaan,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d also loosely translates into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lemming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; a breed of death-lusting gerbils with a reputation for diving off cliffs onto pointy, jagged rocks.\u00c2\u00a0 This was an astonishing revelation. I was totally hooked by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45036,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45035\/revisions\/45036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}