{"id":2962,"date":"2012-10-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2012-10-05T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T16:40:39","slug":"next-darwin-award-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=2962","title":{"rendered":"Next Darwin Award Contender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on a friend&#8217;s Facebook page. My friend is a former air medic. <\/p>\n<p>Damn!  This guy is insane!  Shorts, sneakers, no helmet, not holding on to the bars, and using a mobile device while the bike is in motion???  How crazy is that? This guy certainly deserves the &#8220;greatest dumbbell on the planet&#8221; award along with a Darwin Award.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?attachment_id=2963\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2963\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Darwincontender28.jpg?resize=584%2C462\" alt=\"\" title=\"Darwincontender28\" width=\"584\" height=\"462\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Darwincontender28.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Darwincontender28.jpg?resize=300%2C238&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Darwincontender28.jpg?resize=150%2C119&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Darwincontender28.jpg?resize=379%2C300&amp;ssl=1 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Life is short:  wear long pants, motorcycle boots, a helmet, and turn off and put away mobile devices when operating a vehicle, period, end-of-story! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on a friend&#8217;s Facebook page. My friend is a former air medic. Damn! This guy is insane! Shorts, sneakers, no helmet, not holding on to the bars, and using a mobile device while the bike is in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=2962\">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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","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=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}