{"id":10683,"date":"2016-01-04T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2016-01-03T18:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T23:20:03","slug":"leatherspouse-and-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10683","title":{"rendered":"LeatherSpouse and Riding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an exceptionally productive day on Sunday, starting with a long, brisk walk at oh-dark-30 with my walking partner, then after a shower, leathering up&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230; with my spouse while we took down the Christmas Tree.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/partners\/partnersr.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PartnersNY2016.jpg?resize=463%2C600\" alt=\"PartnersNY2016\" width=\"463\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PartnersNY2016.jpg?w=463&amp;ssl=1 463w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PartnersNY2016.jpg?resize=300%2C389&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PartnersNY2016.jpg?resize=116%2C150&amp;ssl=1 116w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PartnersNY2016.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I met prospective tenants at my rental house, and selected a nice couple who needed to move right away. She is a local firefighter, and her husband is a mechanic.  They&#8217;ll be excellent tenants. (Her husband admired the leather jeans and boots I was wearing :-))<\/p>\n<p>I took my spouse to the grocery store for our weekly shopping trip. He was still wearing leather jeans, as was I. No one said a thing, but I saw a couple of guys &#8212; my gaydar was signaling that they were gay, too &#8212; watching us. We just smiled and went about our business. <\/p>\n<p>The weather warmed to a pleasant but seasonable 51F (10.5C), so I donned a leather jacket that was handy, and took the Harley out for a ride.  The skies were brilliant blue. I loved the opportunity to ride in January!<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ride20160103.jpg?resize=584%2C364\" alt=\"Ride20160103\" width=\"584\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ride20160103.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ride20160103.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ride20160103.jpg?resize=150%2C93&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ride20160103.jpg?resize=768%2C478&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ride20160103.jpg?resize=482%2C300&amp;ssl=1 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>Now, time to get ready to return to work tomorrow.  All good things like this last of my personal winter vacation must end.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short: leather up, wear it, and ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an exceptionally productive day on Sunday, starting with a long, brisk walk at oh-dark-30 with my walking partner, then after a shower, leathering up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-ride","category-partners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}