{"id":8173,"date":"2015-07-03T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T16:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=8173"},"modified":"2017-07-01T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T17:59:36","slug":"the-102nd-tour-de-france-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2015\/07\/03\/the-102nd-tour-de-france-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIF!!! The 102nd Tour de France Begins!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TGIF!! On July 4th, the 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letour.com\/us\/\">Tour de France<\/a> bicycle race begins!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Started in 1903, the race is a three-week long one. Each year it a different route. This year&#8217;s route is said to be full of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tour-de-france-preview-a-booby-trapped-layout-should-add-some-surprises-1435877302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">booby traps<\/a>!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letour.com\/le-tour\/2015\/us\/overall-route.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"792\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8177\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/map_route.jpg\" alt=\"Tour de France map route\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/map_route.jpg 620w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/map_route-501x640.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>The total distance is 3,360 km or nearly 2088 miles!! To put that in perspective, that&#8217;s the distance from New York City to Mexico City!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x2wc76m\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x2wc76m_official-teaser-tour-de-france-2015_sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Official Teaser] Tour de France 2015<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/tourdefrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tourdefrance<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letour.com\/le-tour\/2015\/us\/history\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"403\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8183\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1930.jpg\" alt=\"1930\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em>1930<\/em><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letour.com\/le-tour\/2015\/us\/history\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"403\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8185\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1947.jpg\" alt=\"1947\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em>1947<\/em><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1R9GQVi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8176\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pee-wees-big-adventure1.jpg\" alt=\"Pee-wee's Big Adventure\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1R9GQVi\">1985<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can watch the event, which goes until July 26, on NBC Sports: <a href=\"http:\/\/tourdefrance.nbcsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tourdefrance.nbcsports.com\/<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TGIF!! On July 4th, the 2015 Tour de France bicycle race begins!! Started in 1903, the race is a three-week long one. Each year it a different route. This year&#8217;s route is said to be full of booby traps!! The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17356,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions\/17356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}