{"id":762,"date":"2013-01-05T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2013-01-05T20:09:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T20:09:49","slug":"message-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Message from the UK- He has been spotted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from Don&#8217;s daughter Alex in the UK:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have been watching British Eurosport channel on TV tonight, it broadcasts the Dakar for half an hour every night and I just saw Don on his bike in the background of the an interview!! It looked as though the riders were coming in for the day or maybe just going through a check point. Just thought i&#8217;d let you know so you can post it on our website that he&#8217;s been spotted! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Natalie: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They are in the middle of no where &#8211; in the bivouac!  Simon and Don have already had a confrontation with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamaz\" title=\"Kamaz Team\" target=\"_blank\">Kamaz Team <\/a>(the big trucks)<br \/>\nover where they were parked!!!  Remember, Don and Simon are two little independents and the Kamaz Team is a huge team with those big huge trucks.  Two little bikes up against like 7 huge trucks and Don said 47 Russians!!<\/p>\n<p>He seems in good spirits. The sand was hard for him<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bivouac-first-day.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bivouac-first-day-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"In the bivouac on the first day\" title=\"In the bivouac on the first day\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bivouac-first-day-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bivouac-first-day-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bivouac-first-day-400x263.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bivouac-first-day-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bivouac-first-day.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from Don&#8217;s daughter Alex in the UK:<\/p>\n<p>I have been watching British Eurosport channel on TV tonight, it broadcasts the Dakar for half an hour every night and I just saw Don on his bike in the background of the an interview!! It looked as though the riders were coming in for [&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}