{"id":6,"date":"2001-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2001-12-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-18T05:00:00","slug":"180kph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2001\/12\/18\/180kph\/","title":{"rendered":"180kph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a million miles an hour and i&#8217;m not flying away from here. I&#8217;m talking about Friday night. It was a party, a fair way out and I wasn&#8217;t driving.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t drinking either. I&#8217;ve gone off it a bit. The last time I had a fair whack to drink I couldn&#8217;t eat for like 12 hours the next day&#8230; not particularly fun, especially when you have to drive for an hour to get home. 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