{"id":1205,"date":"2011-06-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2011-06-24T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:00:00","slug":"darwin-award-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Award Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-GDxB1hoOamw\/TgDNZNKWr2I\/AAAAAAAAC9Q\/ZFGfKiWC3Qo\/s1600\/Idiot.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-GDxB1hoOamw\/TgDNZNKWr2I\/AAAAAAAAC9Q\/ZFGfKiWC3Qo\/s400\/Idiot.jpg?resize=400%2C215\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Regretfully, this image was on the front page of the electronic section of the local newspaper.  What&#8217;s wrong with this picture?<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Full face helmet (good), visor open (bad)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Shorts, not long pants<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Flip flops?  Oh, come on!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Riding to a bar that serves alcohol?  Like a designated driver is going to take you home after you&#8217;ve been drinking?  Really?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">This is what I meant yesterday about the idiots who are gathering points for a Darwin Award while simultaneously giving the rest of us bikers a bad name. Shame, shame, shame.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  real bikers wear long pants and boots.  Always. No exceptions. And they don&#8217;t drink and drive, either.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regretfully, this image was on the front page of the electronic section of the local newspaper. What&#8217;s wrong with this picture? Full face helmet (good), visor open (bad) Shorts, not long pants Flip flops? Oh, come on! Riding to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1205\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","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=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}