{"id":2650,"date":"2012-08-19T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2013-11-21T08:03:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T13:03:21","slug":"ridin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Ridin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My partner&#8217;s health situation was stable, so I felt okay leaving him at home while I led a motorcycle ride yesterday.  We went to a little town on the West River near Maryland&#8217;s Chesapeake Bay, to a restaurant on the water.  I wanted to get steamed Maryland blue crabs, but they were too expensive (US$50 a dozen? How nuts is that???).  <\/p>\n<p>I had fish instead.  It was great.  But what was even better was great weather, good friends, my twin brother J being with me, and not getting lost (despite the GPS directing me to go &#8220;off road&#8221; just as we were crossing a dam.  Yeah, right!) <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Blogpic.jpg?resize=584%2C307\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blogpic\" width=\"584\" height=\"307\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Blogpic.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Blogpic.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Blogpic.jpg?resize=150%2C79&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Blogpic.jpg?resize=500%2C263&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>You know, it&#8217;s funny how I found this location.  I have a visitor who reads this blog regularly who comes from a town near this place.  I looked up where that was, then found this restaurant, and decided to ride down there and see it for myself. Very nice!  (Too bad I don&#8217;t know who this blog visitor is, but you live in a pretty area of our state!)<\/p>\n<p>Life is short: RIDE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My partner&#8217;s health situation was stable, so I felt okay leaving him at home while I led a motorcycle ride yesterday. We went to a little town on the West River near Maryland&#8217;s Chesapeake Bay, to a restaurant on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=2650\">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":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-ride","category-twin-brother"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","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=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}