{"id":1163,"date":"2011-05-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2015-06-23T06:10:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:10:01","slug":"ride-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"Ride Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dYLJn0cWomk\/Tcclcka7k6I\/AAAAAAAAC6o\/QAgfLjXd5cc\/s320\/Blog1.jpg?resize=211%2C320\" width=\"211\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I was able to go on an annual motorcycle ride held in Washington, DC, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some random shots &#8212; two of me (wearing my LAPD leather breaches and All American patrol boots), &#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SztX2v9MxYg\/Tcclc3EDTKI\/AAAAAAAAC6w\/_1rOmRAEhUk\/s320\/Texter.jpg?resize=301%2C320\" width=\"301\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and one of a young cop doing what youngsters do:  instead of actually talk to people and maybe learn something, he was happy just to sit by himself and send text messages.  This wasn&#8217;t just one short thing, such as sending a text message home saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m here.&#8221;  This cop spent at least an hour texting away.  Personally, I don&#8217;t get it, but then again, I am a <a href=\"http:\/\/bootedharleydude.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/martian-dinosaur.html\">Martian Dinosaur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/--PXS6BUhBOs\/Tcco4wBcxAI\/AAAAAAAAC60\/2E4_mOoeJyw\/s320\/Ride1.jpg?resize=271%2C320\" width=\"271\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I will post more pics of that event eventually&#8230; but it may take me a while.  As soon as I get off work each day this week, guess who has to go do stuff in the yard?<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  talk, don&#8217;t text.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-49Ze92J0leQ\/TcclcsCb-ZI\/AAAAAAAAC6s\/WJHkXWhdGnU\/s400\/LR2011a.jpg?resize=400%2C365\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to go on an annual motorcycle ride held in Washington, DC, yesterday. Here are some random shots &#8212; two of me (wearing my LAPD leather breaches and All American patrol boots), &#8230; &#8230;and one of a young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1163\">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":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cop-boots","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\/1163","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=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}