{"id":1265,"date":"2024-02-05T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2024-03-27T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T08:15:46","slug":"facing-my-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/facing-my-demon\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing My Demon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>30 odd years ago I had a motorcycle accident in London. Today I had a meeting in London so took the chance to Face My Demons and ride into London for the first time since the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the day I was a 125cc &#8220;L&#8221; dispatch rider delivering letters and artwork across London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One morning, whistling filtering past an Arctic Lorry, a car that decided to pull out in front of said lorry to turn right, became the way I stopped dead with both my motorbike and nearly my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of hospital work and much recovery work from both retrograde and antegrade amnesia, I got back home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did not ride again not because I was scared to, but life took a whole load of new paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decades later I am back in the saddle as many will know from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@davecarrera\">video&#8217;s on my YouTube channel.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is my &#8220;Facing my Demons video where I point out many London landmarks that you may or might not know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Facing My Demon - 35 years after my massive motorbike crash\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kPbG7007mEo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 odd years ago I had a motorcycle accident in London. Today I had a meeting in London so took the chance to Face My Demons and ride into London for the first time since the crash. Back in the day I was a 125cc &#8220;L&#8221; dispatch rider delivering letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[219,217,218],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorcycling","tag-crash","tag-demon","tag-london"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesphoto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}