{"id":6,"date":"2008-01-28T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T13:33:00","slug":"testifying-in-cowboy-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Testifying in Cowboy Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/R53aRhMIDII\/AAAAAAAAAA4\/zeNZpx2p30I\/s1600-h\/DPostrich16.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/R53aRhMIDII\/AAAAAAAAAA4\/zeNZpx2p30I\/s200\/DPostrich16.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160520742538316930\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">I always wear boots, and usually don&#8217;t have to dress in a suit, but today is an exception.  I&#8217;m wearing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/cowboy\/dpostrich.html\"> Dan Post Black Ostrich Leg Cowboy Boots<\/a> today.   I will appear before a committee of our state senate to testify on a pending bill to restrict using a cell phone or sending text messages while operating a motor vehicle.  A good buddy was killed several years ago by a cell-phone-yapping-SUV-driving-yuppie, who only got a slap on the wrist and no jail time for killing my friend.  Personally, I think cell phones have their place, but not inside a 5,000-pound moving vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>This bill hasn&#8217;t passed committee before because our part-time legislature is forever on their cell phones, and they don&#8217;t want to restrict themselves.  It&#8217;s time for this practice to stop.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, though, that while this law has been on the books in Washington, DC, for a couple years, nobody abides by it and the cops don&#8217;t enforce it.  I see cell-phone-yapping yuppies blathering away all the time while driving on DC city streets.  Nonetheless, I think it&#8217;s time the law gets passed in Maryland, and the cops enforce it.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wear boots, and usually don&#8217;t have to dress in a suit, but today is an exception. I&#8217;m wearing my Dan Post Black Ostrich Leg Cowboy Boots today. I will appear before a committee of our state senate to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}