{"id":206,"date":"2015-10-23T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodlife.fuelthemes.net\/sports-demo\/?p=206"},"modified":"2021-09-21T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T07:21:07","slug":"fernando-alonso-reaffirms-mclaren-commitment-through-to-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/2015\/10\/23\/fernando-alonso-reaffirms-mclaren-commitment-through-to-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso reaffirms McLaren commitment through to 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #111; font-size: 24px; line-height: 34px;\">Fernando Alonso has <strong>reaffirmed<\/strong> his intention to stay at <strong>McLaren<\/strong> for the duration of his contract, which runs until 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alonso&#8217;s angry radio outbursts at the Japanese Grand Prix, where he labelled Honda&#8217;s power unit &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; and a &#8220;GP2 engine&#8221;, prompted speculation in some quarters the <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Spaniard would leave McLaren at the end of 2015<\/span><\/strong>. Those rumours continued despite the fact <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alonso is in the first season of a three-year deal at McLaren<\/span><\/em> and following the tweets he sent out after Suzuka to say\u00a0<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;no-one should have any doubt&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0about his desire to stay.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he could say with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">100 percent certainty he would be racing at McLaren<\/span><\/span> next season, Alonso replied: &#8220;Of course &#8212; and &#8217;17.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though both Alonso and team-mate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Jenson Button have put a brave face on through McLaren-Honda&#8217;s troubling<\/span><\/span> first season together, the former&#8217;s radio messages attracted a lot of attention after Suzuka. Alonso does not think radio messages are that relevant to how a <del>driver feels and was keen to stress<\/del> how positive he and Button have been this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I would have loved to see where it landed,<\/span><\/em>&#8221; Royals center fielder\u00a0<a href=\"#\">Lorenzo Cain<\/a>\u00a0said. &#8220;I thought it was hilarious. I laughed at it. When emotions are riding that high, you feel like you can do anything out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During this period <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">my thoughts were continually<\/span><\/em> upon Dian the Beautiful. I was, of course, glad that she had escaped the Mahars, and the fate that had been suggested by the Sagoth who had threatened to purchase her upon our arrival at Phutra. I often wondered if the little party of fugitives had been overtaken by the guards who had returned to search for them. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\">Sometimes I was not so sure but that I should have been more<\/span> contented to know that Dian was here in Phutra, than to think of her at the mercy of Hooja the Sly One. Ghak, Perry, and I often talked together of possible escape, but the Sarian was so steeped in his lifelong belief that no one could escape from the Mahars except by a miracle, that he was not much aid to us\u2014his attitude was of one who waits for the miracle to <a href=\"#\">come<\/a> to him.<\/p>\n<p>At my suggestion Perry and I fashioned some swords of scraps of iron which we discovered among some rubbish in the cells where we slept, for we were permitted almost <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">unrestrained freedom of action<\/span><\/span> within the limits of the building to which we had been assigned. So great were the <del>number of slaves who waited<\/del> upon the inhabitants of Phutra that none of us was apt to be overburdened with work, nor were our masters unkind to us.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/6th_gear_racing_cars-wide.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-235 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/6th_gear_racing_cars-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival of the ship, the body showed symptoms of sinking with all its treasures unrifled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We hid our new weapons beneath the skins which formed our beds, and then Perry conceived the idea of making bows and arrows\u2014weapons apparently unknown within <a href=\"#\">Pellucidar<\/a>. Next came shields; but these I found it easier to steal from the walls of the outer guardroom of the building.<\/p>\n<h3>Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught<\/h3>\n<h4>We were permitted almost unrestrained<\/h4>\n<p>We had completed these arrangements for our protection after leaving Phutra when the Sagoths who had been sent to recapture the escaped prisoners returned with four of them, of whom Hooja was one. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Dian and two others had eluded<\/em><\/span> them. It so happened that Hooja was confined in the same building with us. <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He told Ghak that he had not seen Dian or the others<\/span><\/strong> after releasing them within the dark grotto. What had become of them he had not the faintest conception\u2014they might be wandering yet, lost within the labyrinthine tunnel, if not dead from starvation.<\/p>\n<p>I was now still further apprehensive as to the fate of Dian, and at this time, I imagine, came the first realization that my affection for the girl might be prompted by more than friendship. During my waking hours she was constantly the subject of my thoughts, and when I slept her dear face haunted my dreams. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\">More than ever was I determined to escape the Mahars.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/racing-girl.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-257 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/racing-girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We are committed to remaining by his side as a family for our champion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At Liverpool, Klopp should get time to fix this team and replace parts to build his own side. Winning this season, however, would be the best <a href=\"#\">advertisement<\/a> for bringing in quality players over the summer. Qualifying for the Champions League would certainly help the cause.<\/p>\n<p>On the pitch, though, Liverpool is further behind than the six points between it and league leader Manchester City or the three points separating the Reds from the final Champions League position. However, if Klopp manages to surpass expectations and snag a league title sooner rather than later, the &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">King of the Kop&#8221; would hardly be considered a &#8220;normal guy.<\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I now screwed my eyes hard towards the half hidden image, feeling but ill at ease meantime\u2014to see what was next to follow. First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze. Presently, after <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">many hasty snatches into the fire<\/span><\/span>, and still hastier withdrawals of his <a href=\"#\">fingers<\/a> (whereby he seemed to be scorching them badly), he at last succeeded in drawing out the biscuit; then blowing off the heat and ashes a little, he made a polite offer of it to the little negro. But the little devil did not seem to fancy such dry <del>sort of fare at all; he never moved his lips. All these strange antics were<\/del> accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner. At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has reaffirmed his intention to stay at McLaren for the duration of his contract, which runs until 2017. Alonso&#8217;s angry radio outbursts at the Japanese Grand Prix, where he labelled Honda&#8217;s power unit &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; and a &#8220;GP2 engine&#8221;, prompted speculation in some quarters the Spaniard would leave McLaren at the end of 2015.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,27],"tags":[54,165,208],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drivers","category-racing","tag-alonso","tag-mclaren","tag-reaffirms"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitless.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}