{"id":16,"date":"2026-06-02T20:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:48:51","slug":"so-how-does-this-work-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"The start of something good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260525_184525781-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Bullseye\" class=\"wp-image-20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260525_184525781-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260525_184525781-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260525_184525781-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260525_184525781-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260525_184525781-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>50 yards with a 6 gold end?<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Managing to hit a 6-gold end at 50 yards. Feels amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll be continuing to build on my stamina and form thanks to the amazing coaches at Alsager Company of Archers ready for the Wenlock Olympics next month. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IcepSDw4xwc?si=eJIPsaKl7sV_fGYU\">short video<\/a> of the event from last year. I didn&#8217;t win anything (I was at the stage of only just being able to hit the target at 60 yards with my equipment and it was <em>super <\/em>windy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archery","tag-archery","tag-progress","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbateman.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}