{"id":1942,"date":"2016-07-23T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2016-07-23T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T16:04:58","slug":"dorchester-old-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/dorchester-old-and-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorchester: old and new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday<\/p>\n<p>I rode in to Dorchester and after going round a few circles found somewhere to park. It was quite a practical visit. I bought magazines in Smiths (how I love Smiths) and stood outside Boots hanging on their free wi-fi to download to my phone notes about nurses on strike and the details of a couple of films I am mentioning that involve nurses \u2013 one being The English Patient, sentimental but beautifully shot.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, after passing so many town centre coffee chains and tourist tea rooms, I found a great independent coffee shop off the beaten track just next to where I had parked and had the most delicious coffee before heading back. Does coffee really smell nicer in these places than in chains or is it just that I am thirstier when I go in?<\/p>\n<p>I also found Waitrose Dorchester \u2013 in a huge huge new development of fake classical buildings to the West of the city. Every shop there seems to sell mobility aids or be a nursing agency. The demographic here is definitely on the oldy side. Those zimmer frames with wheels and bags attached are the common mode of transport on the streets here.<\/p>\n<p>I am just starting to build up momentum writing. Look:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/28262308690\/in\/album-72157671454530046\/\" title=\"Actually writing my book\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8529\/28262308690_9df5c7ea10_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" alt=\"Actually writing my book\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday I rode in to Dorchester and after going round a few circles found somewhere to park. It was quite a practical visit. I bought magazines in Smiths (how I love Smiths) and stood outside Boots hanging on their free wi-fi to download to my phone notes about nurses on strike and the details of&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/dorchester-old-and-new\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorchester: old and new<\/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":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","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=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}