{"id":200,"date":"2012-07-13T21:58:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T04:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2012-07-13T21:58:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T04:58:52","slug":"stage-12-recap-stage-13-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Stage 12 Recap, Stage 13 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling quite a bit better though I&#8217;m not quite back to 100% just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today&#8217;s stage was easily the most boring of the race yet and I&#8217;m certainly not about to try and make it seem more interesting than it was. I got the impression that the racers today were not pleased with the Tour&#8217;s decision to place a big climb at the start of the stage and as a result, the peloton didn&#8217;t even try to chase down the 5-man break away.<\/p>\n<p>Team Garmin&#8217;s David Millar would be awarded the stage victory today. It was nice to see team Garmin get a win after all the unfortunate events that they&#8217;ve had during the race.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201\" style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/millar-podium-631x421.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201\" title=\"millar-podium-631x421\" src=\"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/millar-podium-631x421.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/millar-podium-631x421.jpeg 631w, http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/millar-podium-631x421-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Millar wins Stage 12 of the TdF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Stage 13 Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Stage13.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202\" title=\"Stage13\" src=\"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Stage13.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Stage13.jpeg 470w, http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Stage13-300x159.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Return of the sprinters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sprinters will return tomorrow and you should expect a wild finish as the last 2k are just slightly downhill. Speeds will be high and that means that you can expect Cavendish, Goss, Sagan, and Farrar to be in the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling quite a bit better though I&#8217;m not quite back to 100% just yet. Well, today&#8217;s stage was easily the most boring of the race yet and I&#8217;m certainly not about to try and make it seem more interesting than it was. I got the impression that the racers today were not pleased with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,9],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michael.westapher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}