{"id":642,"date":"2007-03-17T23:14:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T23:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=642"},"modified":"2007-03-18T23:01:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T23:01:27","slug":"testosterone-adrenaline-and-petrol-fumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Testosterone, adrenaline and petrol fumes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a pleasant lie-in, I finally awoke and cooked myself a breakfast of bacon, eggs and tomatoes&#8230;.mmmm. Plenty of calories for the day!<\/p>\n<p>Met up with some of the lads from the church &#8211; and some others who were brave enough to associate with us &#8211; for a game of football. Despite the injury I sustained on Monday, I was able to move, albeit slowly and without too much vigour! The teams were very even, ending in 3-2, which is very low for a five-a-side game.<\/p>\n<p>After a quick shower and McDonalds, we were off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.premier-karting.com\/\">Premier Karting<\/a> in Reading for Nigel&#8217;s stag evening. Once we&#8217;d all convened, paid-up and digested a quick safety briefing we were racing! The evening was broken up into 24 heats of 6 contestants per heat, culminating into a final of the top 8 drivers. It was very well put-together, and you weren&#8217;t left waiting around for too long if you weren&#8217;t racing. While Nigel didn&#8217;t end up as the winner at the end of the day, that fell to Trevor, he did have the honour of having the fastest lap time during the heats. I came 10th out of 24, which wasn&#8217;t bad considering the competition.  A fun evening, and I even managed to get <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/GC.Yuen\/NigeSStagDo\">some photos<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a pleasant lie-in, I finally awoke and cooked myself a breakfast of bacon, eggs and tomatoes&#8230;.mmmm. Plenty of calories for the day! Met up with some of the lads from the church &#8211; and some others who were brave enough to associate with us &#8211; for a game of football. Despite the injury I&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=642\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}