{"id":319598,"date":"2017-04-06T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T23:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeme.tv\/?p=319598"},"modified":"2017-04-09T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:42:34","slug":"the-appening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/the-appening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Appening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear George,<\/p>\n<p>What the fuck? I&#8217;m being serious now.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re now an App? With Emojis?<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Emojis you sent to Matthias and me because you think: &#8220;It&#8217;s a sexy fun way for everybody to get behind the Spartan and support him while he stabs all the putas with his spear?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matthias now wants to put you on a fire-proof conveyor belt and drink schnapps while he watches you roll into an industrial furnace. He also wants to take pictures of this and send it to his accountants.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to focus on doing something in Argentina that doesn&#8217;t involve you finishing outside the top ten. And no, coating your spear in butter and poking it into Rossi&#8217;s tyre allotment is not one of those things.<\/p>\n<p>George, please. I know you like your Emojis and you&#8217;re very excited about your new App where people who sign up get four free cartoon pictures of you making faces, but I am at a loss to understand how this will:<\/p>\n<p>a) Recoup the money Germans invested in you, and b) &#8220;Get me more fans than the Yellow Puta could ever dream of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was embarrassing enough when you changed your racing number to double devil horns from the halo-and-horns rubbish you had when you were Yamaha&#8217;s problem.<\/p>\n<p>I had to spend hours convincing Matthias, who is one of those creepy Lutherans, you were not in league with Satan. It wasn&#8217;t until he saw you ride in Qatar that he actually believed me and called off the priests he was sending to have you exorcised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gigi,&#8221; he said to me, &#8220;you were right. He cannot have made a deal with the devil because he is riding like a schweinhund.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now this Emoji shit.<\/p>\n<p>No, the Argentines are not still at war with England. You don&#8217;t have to bring extra spears and spit on Crutchlow. Just get to Free Practice on time.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Gigi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear George, What the fuck? I&#8217;m being serious now. You&#8217;re now an App? With Emojis? Emojis you sent to Matthias and me because you think: &#8220;It&#8217;s a sexy fun way for everybody to get behind the Spartan and support him while he stabs all the putas with his spear?&#8221; Matthias now wants to put you [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":319612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[79,219,253,256,67,254,61,255,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319641,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319598\/revisions\/319641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}