{"id":4765,"date":"2013-05-12T14:27:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T18:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2013-05-13T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:43:33","slug":"riding-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=4765","title":{"rendered":"Riding To Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 12, I rode with about 15 of my friends, some of whom are retired or active law enforcement officers, to the annual &#8220;Law Ride&#8221; which kicks off Police Week in Washington, DC.  We rode to the staging area then rode in procession past the U.S. Capitol to the National Law Enforcement Officer&#8217;s Memorial in downtown DC.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Niceboot.jpg?resize=584%2C781\" alt=\"Niceboot\" width=\"584\" height=\"781\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Niceboot.jpg?w=598&amp;ssl=1 598w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Niceboot.jpg?resize=300%2C401&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Niceboot.jpg?resize=112%2C150&amp;ssl=1 112w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Niceboot.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>This is but one photo that I took &#8212;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230; it will take me a lot longer to process the remaining photos of this event.<\/p>\n<p>I regret that attendance by active duty officers is dwindling more and more&#8230; other events requiring local cops to work were going on in and near the city of Washington, DC.  Unfortunately, their work took them away from joining us &#8212; about 500 supporters and about 40 cops, mostly from Florida and Ohio.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LR2013H.jpg?resize=584%2C572\" alt=\"LR2013H\" width=\"584\" height=\"572\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LR2013H.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LR2013H.jpg?resize=300%2C294&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LR2013H.jpg?resize=150%2C147&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LR2013H.jpg?resize=306%2C300&amp;ssl=1 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>It was great, however, to see and catch up with my friend Clockner who I saw at the Memorial.  He&#8217;s a great guy. Sorry to have missed Auxmccop who I spoke with by phone, but did not see&#8211;he was unable to get to the Memorial when I was there.  My group left early so we could get back home to spend time with those we love.<\/p>\n<p>More later&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  remember those who served and have died in the line of duty.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bootpost.jpg?resize=584%2C828\" alt=\"Bootpost\" width=\"584\" height=\"828\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bootpost.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bootpost.jpg?resize=300%2C426&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bootpost.jpg?resize=105%2C150&amp;ssl=1 105w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bootpost.jpg?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 12, I rode with about 15 of my friends, some of whom are retired or active law enforcement officers, to the annual &#8220;Law Ride&#8221; which kicks off Police Week in Washington, DC. We rode to the staging area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=4765\">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":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cop-boots","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\/4765","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=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}