{"id":775,"date":"2009-08-17T06:58:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/?p=775"},"modified":"2024-04-26T05:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:29:40","slug":"ready-to-advance-on-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/ready-to-advance-on-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to advance on Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-776\" title=\"_mg_0147_bikeballoon\" src=\"http:\/\/peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0147_bikeballoon.jpg\" alt=\"_mg_0147_bikeballoon\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0147_bikeballoon.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0147_bikeballoon-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stopped about 30km from Berlin. I will make the final advance in the morning.\u00a0 Fed an wrapped for bed. The smell from my tent tells me I need to pause in this journey, clean and refresh my belongings. I am not quite over my food poisoning of several days ago. When nature calls its more of a deafening yell.<br \/>\nLost a courgette somewhere along the road.<br \/>\nIt was a steady uneventful day, of music and lectures on Ghandi and Thoreau. as I cycle in the sun, I think of the great mass of other men, leading lives of quiet desperation. Its mostly a pine forest ride, occasional rain, and my speed is fanned by the wind.<br \/>\nI grapple with my desire to keep doing this, to not work, to forever pedal, and the concept of returning back to London only becomes palatable when it is viewed as a necessary break from travel, and not the other way around, and because of the beautiful girl I care for that waits there, the last green leaf of summer on a winter tree. I hope that Caroline can join me when I return to this, my life by wheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopped about 30km from Berlin. I will make the final advance in the morning.\u00a0 Fed an wrapped for bed. The smell from my tent tells me I need to pause in this journey, clean and refresh my belongings. I am not quite over my food poisoning of several days ago. When nature calls its more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}