{"id":16269,"date":"2021-05-14T08:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T12:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=16269"},"modified":"2021-05-14T08:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T12:56:25","slug":"riding-to-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=16269","title":{"rendered":"Riding to Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here goes&#8230; riding my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/hd\/harley.html\">new Harley-Davidson Softail Slim<\/a> to duty as a volunteer in my community. I love combining my passions for community service and riding my motorcycle:<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Slim02.jpg?resize=584%2C409&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Slim02.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Slim02.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Slim02.jpg?resize=150%2C105&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Slim02.jpg?resize=768%2C538&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Slim02.jpg?resize=429%2C300&amp;ssl=1 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>What I like a lot about this motorcycle is<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;that its seat height is low enough for me as a short guy to sit on it and plant my boots flat on the ground:<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dannerlookoutgrounded.jpg?resize=584%2C431&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"431\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dannerlookoutgrounded.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dannerlookoutgrounded.jpg?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dannerlookoutgrounded.jpg?resize=150%2C111&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dannerlookoutgrounded.jpg?resize=768%2C566&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dannerlookoutgrounded.jpg?resize=407%2C300&amp;ssl=1 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>This motorcycle is also 150 pounds (68kg) lighter than my former Road King, so it is much easier to handle, especially as I age.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short: Ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here goes&#8230; riding my new Harley-Davidson Softail Slim to duty as a volunteer in my community. I love combining my passions for community service and riding my motorcycle:What I like a lot about this motorcycle is<\/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-16269","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\/16269","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=16269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}