{"id":6719,"date":"2014-03-23T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2014-03-23T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T18:06:54","slug":"where-a-biker-goes-on-a-nice-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6719","title":{"rendered":"Where a Biker Goes on a Nice Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday turned out to be as warm and delightful as promised in the forecast.  My spouse was even feeling well enough to join me and my senior pals on our morning rounds of coupon-driven grocery gathering (giggle.)<\/p>\n<p>After the fun of taking LOLITS to the grocery store, we returned them to their homes and returned home ourselves.  I prepared my extra-special gluten-free pizza for my spouse.   <\/p>\n<p>I had messages waiting for me on the answering machine (yeah, I&#8217;m that old-fashioned) from some biker buddies who said they already departed for a ride, and we&#8217;ll ride together next time.  Oh well, I wasn&#8217;t going to have the situation of missing the ride with my friends spoil my day.  I made a call to make sure someone I wanted to visit was forewarned that a leather-clad, booted biker was on his way.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI mounted my trusted iron horse and rode north through some beautiful Maryland countryside to visit my nephew, his wife, and their first child.  Meet my newest Great Nephew&#8230;.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Carter03222014b.jpg?resize=584%2C761\" alt=\"Carter03222014b\" width=\"584\" height=\"761\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Carter03222014b.jpg?w=614&amp;ssl=1 614w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Carter03222014b.jpg?resize=300%2C391&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Carter03222014b.jpg?resize=115%2C150&amp;ssl=1 115w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Carter03222014b.jpg?resize=230%2C300&amp;ssl=1 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>I love it when my joys all come together &#8212; my family and riding my Harley on a nice day.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  show those you love how you love them &#8212; visit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday turned out to be as warm and delightful as promised in the forecast. My spouse was even feeling well enough to join me and my senior pals on our morning rounds of coupon-driven grocery gathering (giggle.) After the fun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6719\">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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719","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=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}