{"id":489,"date":"2005-08-18T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=489"},"modified":"2005-08-18T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T01:12:00","slug":"cycle-helmets-wear-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Cycle helmets: wear &#8217;em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a frequently angry, everlasting debate among cyclists: helmets or no helmets?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in one of the extreme groups: I won&#8217;t go out without one.<\/p>\n<p>Partly that&#8217;s a function of coming from Australia, where they are compulsory, and partly it is because I think for the small amount of inconvenience involved you could save your brains. (And I don&#8217;t go for the argument that it makes either you or motorists more careless &#8211; I know I&#8217;m still extremely vulnerable, and I doubt most drivers are paying enough attention to notice.)<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingualnerve.com\/archives\/2005\/07\/28\/please-wear-your-helmet\/#more-236\">scary tale <\/a>posted by a doctor backs me up, and shows that it is not just the motorists you have to worry about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a frequently angry, everlasting debate among cyclists: helmets or no helmets? I&#8217;m in one of the extreme groups: I won&#8217;t go out without one. Partly that&#8217;s a function of coming from Australia, where they are compulsory, and partly it is because I think for the small amount of inconvenience involved you could save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}