{"id":1213,"date":"2010-03-07T19:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2010-03-07T19:29:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T18:29:51","slug":"preview-new-routes-on-cannock-chase-monkey-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Preview &#8211; new routes on Cannock Chase &#8211; &#8216;Monkey Trail&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/p_1600_1200_469F498D-35F7-4D2E-8CEE-CB0A7679E0DF.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Giant Sculpture at Birches Valley, Cannock Chase\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/p_1600_1200_469F498D-35F7-4D2E-8CEE-CB0A7679E0DF.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Its been no secret that there has been huge amounts of trail building work going on on the chase over the last 2 years. Apparently they are all opening on the 20th March weekend with a open day at Birches Valley.<br \/>\nAn interview with the Cannock Chase Ranger all about it with some photos\u00a0is here..<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/article\/interview-cannock-chase-ranger-rob-lamb-24914\">http:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/article\/interview-cannock-chase-ranger-rob-lamb-24914<\/a><br \/>\nThe new trails are sponsored by Giant and will be called The Monkey Trail.\u00a0 They are all currently brashed over to stop any damage before they open but from the look of them it is a good step up in technicality over the existing follow the dog route and the complete route\u00a0is said to extend to 24km.<br \/>\nI will ride it in its entirety when I return from holiday and give a full report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been no secret that there has been huge amounts of trail building work going on on the chase over the last 2 years. Apparently they are all opening on the 20th March weekend with a open day at Birches Valley. An interview with the Cannock Chase Ranger all about it with some photos\u00a0is here..http:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/article\/interview-cannock-chase-ranger-rob-lamb-24914 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preview &#8211; new routes on Cannock Chase &#8211; &#8216;Monkey Trail&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannockchase","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}