{"id":11242,"date":"2016-05-09T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=11242"},"modified":"2016-05-09T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T12:01:08","slug":"ride-in-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=11242","title":{"rendered":"Ride In Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally&#8230; after 10 straight days of rain, we had a break with a bright sunshiny, pleasant day on Sunday May 8 to enjoy Law Ride 2016 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>I met some buddies and rode with them to the staging area&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;where we waited for the ride to take off.<\/p>\n<p>As has happened on this ride each year for the <a href=\"http:\/\/bootedman.com\/galleries\/index.php?cat=24\" target=\"_blank\">past 10 on which I have joined it<\/a>, there were fewer motorcycle officers riding on this ride than ever before &#8212; just three agencies.<\/p>\n<p>What did I wear?  Leather breeches and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/cycle\/chipshinelug2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chippewa Hi-Shine engineer boots<\/a> with added Vibram 100 lug soles.<\/p>\n<p>The few photos that I took will be posted on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/galleries\/\" target=\"_blank\">cop galleries<\/a> later.  But meanwhile, here is a video taken via &#8220;helmetcam&#8221; and some still photos of me and my view.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost01.jpg?resize=584%2C475\" alt=\"BHDMpost01\" width=\"584\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost01.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost01.jpg?resize=300%2C244&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost01.jpg?resize=150%2C122&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost01.jpg?resize=369%2C300&amp;ssl=1 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost02.jpg?resize=584%2C370\" alt=\"BHDMpost02\" width=\"584\" height=\"370\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost02.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost02.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost02.jpg?resize=150%2C95&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost02.jpg?resize=473%2C300&amp;ssl=1 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost03.jpg?resize=584%2C438\" alt=\"BHDMpost03\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost03.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost03.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost03.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost03.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BHDMpost03.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mmCWg4YVC6o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>Life is short: ride to honor those who have died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally&#8230; after 10 straight days of rain, we had a break with a bright sunshiny, pleasant day on Sunday May 8 to enjoy Law Ride 2016 in Washington, DC. I met some buddies and rode with them to the staging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=11242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-ride"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242","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=11242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}