{"id":12292,"date":"2016-11-13T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12292"},"modified":"2016-11-13T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T15:45:59","slug":"2cv-drivers-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/2cv-drivers-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"2CV drivers beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/11nov16_05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/11nov16_05_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the hazards of driving a 2CV in rural France. Last night I was returning home after enjoying dinner with Victor who is still in hospital but insists on escaping on his crutches whenever he can for a bit of fun. It was dark, rainy and a bit misty and all of a sudden a large wild boar sauntered out of the woods on the right straight in front of the car!<\/p>\n<p>I slammed on the brakes, if you can call it that in a 2CV because its brakes are decidedly &#8216;France ancienne&#8217; agricultural, and that&#8217;s being polite. I was amazed that all four wheels did actually lock up, although it was probably only because the road was wet and covered with leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Just before our worlds collided, the boar must have heard the sound of the slipping tyres or revving engine and luckily for us both, did a skip and a hop across the road and disappeared into the trees on the other side. Fortunately he was a big old lone male because although the sows are just as big, they very often have a stream of piglets in tow. I hate to think what damage would have been done to the front of the 2CV if we had come together.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re used to deer jumping out in front of us, usually in pairs, and they can do plenty of damage, but those big old boars are built like a battle tank \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hazards of driving a 2CV in rural France. Last night I was returning home after enjoying dinner with Victor who is still in hospital but insists on escaping on his crutches whenever he can for a bit of fun. It was dark, rainy and a bit misty and all of a sudden &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/2cv-drivers-beware\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12296,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12292\/revisions\/12296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}