{"id":12,"date":"2008-02-04T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2016-01-15T06:16:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T11:16:54","slug":"clearing-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/R6cHWBMIDQI\/AAAAAAAAAB8\/KpWsEc0XHVo\/s1600-h\/Bootcruise.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/R6cHWBMIDQI\/AAAAAAAAAB8\/KpWsEc0XHVo\/s200\/Bootcruise.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163103572661374210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">I remain saddened and am grieving for the loss of my dear friend who died unexpectedly on Feb. 1.  But it&#8217;s no fun moping around the house, and my partner doesn&#8217;t know what to do with me when I get this way.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday afternoon was exceptionally pleasant and unusually warm for early February.  So I booted up in my tall brown Wesco harness boots, leathered up my legs and body, and went for a ride.   My partner filmed me doing some spins in a parking lot, which I&#8217;m using as a sales vid since I am selling my current Harley so I can get another one soon.<\/p>\n<p>I also shot a vid and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FcA92CuR_zQ\">posted it on YouTube of the boots on the bike<\/a>.  I had always fantasized about the &#8220;boots on bike&#8221; thing since CHiPs back in the &#8217;70s.  I got to do my own.  A nice ride in boots and leather on a nice day helped clear my head and prepare me for a difficult week ahead.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remain saddened and am grieving for the loss of my dear friend who died unexpectedly on Feb. 1. But it&#8217;s no fun moping around the house, and my partner doesn&#8217;t know what to do with me when I get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=12\">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":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-ride","category-wesco-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","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=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}