{"id":707,"date":"2013-01-04T23:11:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T23:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2013-01-05T00:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T00:04:38","slug":"ready-to-go-for-tomorrow-at-400-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Go for Tomorrow at 4:00 am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don and Simon are all through admin checks and they both passed. The race starts 4:00 am our time <strong>tomorrow morning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After that it starts at either 1:00 or2:00 am our time each day. So that by the time we get up, they will have been riding for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Don will be getting ready to set up his booth, which will be seen by 100s of thousands of people from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Don was given about 300 small Duncan flags just before he left and he gave them out on Thursday. Just giving out what he did drew a lot of exposure. He was interviews by a Peruvian news network over the flag. They they wanted him to explain what the flag was.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Day before the Dakar race\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tzeKXa-V_Wc&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a fun video<\/a>, although we can hardly understand the reporter, but you will see Don and Simon very early on.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-707 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/FINAL-DUNCAN-FLAG.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/FINAL-DUNCAN-FLAG-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/donsi-0.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/donsi-0-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Don and Simon hit the streets of Lima\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/si_don_together-0.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/si_don_together-0-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/si_air-0.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/si_air-0-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dscn2223-0.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dscn2223-0-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"On the Big Screen\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dsc_0068-0.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dsc_0068-0-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Don Hatton\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dons_people-0.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dons_people-0-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Don and Friends\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/don_and_bike-0.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/don_and_bike-0-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lots and lots of sand\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-716\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-716'>\n\t\t\t\tLots and lots of sand\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don and Simon are all through admin checks and they both passed. The race starts 4:00 am our time tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>After that it starts at either 1:00 or2:00 am our time each day. So that by the time we get up, they will have been riding for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Don will [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,24,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}