{"id":1189,"date":"2013-02-10T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2013-02-10T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T12:17:20","slug":"t-e-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/t-e-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"T E Lawrence and Brough motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just got hold of a lovely edition of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by &#8216;Lawrence of Arabia&#8217; who changed his name to Shaw in later years to shake off this identification. He was a motorcycle fanatic to the extent that he was killed while hurtling his Brough around the west country. I found this nice picture of what I presume is his motorbike (or one like it) at an unnamed museum. If you can read the poster behind the bike you won&#8217;t be surprised to learn that motorcycling was his demise.<\/p>\n<p>Look at <a title=\"T E Lawrence motorcycle routes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.milism.net\/tel_routes.htm\">this website<\/a> for someone&#8217;s reconstruction of some of the routes Lawrence took on his motorcycle rides.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"lawrence brough\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-rS975IOvTx8\/TlqD8gL7D3I\/AAAAAAAAAwE\/cdbfDyAt43U\/s1600\/DSCF9331.JPG\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I hope the text is readable<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just got hold of a lovely edition of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by &#8216;Lawrence of Arabia&#8217; who changed his name to Shaw in later years to shake off this identification. He was a motorcycle fanatic to the extent that he was killed while hurtling his Brough around the west country. I found this&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/t-e-lawrence\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">T E Lawrence and Brough motorcycle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-strange-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}