I don\u2019t know why people are put off cycling when it\u2019s raining. I prefer it. All you need is a raincoat to protect you from the elements, and the best part is that there\u2019s hardly anyone else about. Presumably the other fair weather cyclists and pedestrians are in their cars. It means I can cycle along the waterfront with nary a soul in sight, singing \u201craindrops keep falling on my head\u201d with little fear of being overheard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don\u2019t know why people are put off cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-17v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10031,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/close-but-no-cigar\/","url_meta":{"origin":4309,"position":0},"title":"Close but no cigar","author":"Interloper11","date":"April 30, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"As I was riding my moped to work this morning I was singing away to myself as per usual, when I suddenly realised that I was mangling the lyrics. I was singing \u201cMichelle\u201d by the Beatles. I was a mad Beatle fan when I was at school. A friend and\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accordingtokirsty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_0011-1024x778.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accordingtokirsty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_0011-1024x778.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accordingtokirsty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_0011-1024x778.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10380,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/positive-affirmation\/","url_meta":{"origin":4309,"position":1},"title":"Positive affirmation","author":"Interloper11","date":"July 28, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I was singing the \u201cNobody likes me\u201d song to myself the other day, when one of the offspring who was with me said they\u2019d never heard anyone else ever singing the song, and had I just made it up? I couldn\u2019t believe it. Thank goodness for Google because I could\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accordingtokirsty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0174-956x1024.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accordingtokirsty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0174-956x1024.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accordingtokirsty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0174-956x1024.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3147,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/24\/serenade\/","url_meta":{"origin":4309,"position":2},"title":"Serenade","author":"Interloper11","date":"August 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a bit tragic that the local crooner loudly singing his renditions of such favourites as \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d, \u201cSave The Last Dance\u201d, and \u201cPokarekare Ana\u201d at the pool bar are so unconducive to a jet lagged early night.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4889,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/04\/etiquette\/","url_meta":{"origin":4309,"position":3},"title":"Etiquette","author":"Interloper11","date":"June 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"On a scale of one to ten, how bad is it to discover your husband on a work Zoom meeting when you\u2019ve been singing \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d at the top of your lungs around the house for the last five minutes?","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3802,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/11\/festive-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4309,"position":4},"title":"Festive","author":"Interloper11","date":"December 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The nurses at the private hospital obviously had some free time this week. I usually find myself humming a melange of different carols at this time of year, so that frosty the snowman will be helping guide Santa\u2019s sleigh in inclement weather, for example. I\u2019ve been singing this one under\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accordingtokirsty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/94A37F4C-907F-428B-ACCC-386CBB5A41BE-e1576091849261-225x300.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3513,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/22\/je-ne-regrette-rien\/","url_meta":{"origin":4309,"position":5},"title":"Je ne regrette rien","author":"Interloper11","date":"October 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"My French host mum has just been singing French songs to us over dinner. Piaf, Aznovar, and a bunch of others that I\u2019ve never heard of that are now dead. Golly, she is just as cute as a button. I could never hope to be as nice as this couple.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accordingtokirsty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/70EB909B-3CEA-402F-B744-E084FBCB4896-300x225.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}