{"id":7846,"date":"2014-09-13T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2014-09-13T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T17:30:52","slug":"the-boss-goes-for-a-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=7846","title":{"rendered":"The Boss Goes for a Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was a great day &#8212; lightly-staffed &#8220;catch-up&#8221; day at the office.  The boss and I caught up on a lot of things.  By about 1130, we turned to each other and said, &#8220;let&#8217;s ride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, the boss and I took off on my Harley&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230; he was my passenger.  We rode on a lovely stretch of roadway through a park all the way into downtown DC.  When we came out of the park, we stopped at a nearby restaurant and had lunch, then we rode back.<\/p>\n<p>The ride was great, and the boss was well-booted.  I made him go back to get a pair of boots suitable for motorcycling before he left his home for work that morning with this email message:<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride0.jpg?resize=584%2C229\" alt=\"Bossride0\" width=\"584\" height=\"229\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride0.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride0.jpg?resize=300%2C117&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride0.jpg?resize=150%2C58&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride0.jpg?resize=500%2C196&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s great working with the best boss I&#8217;ve ever had&#8230; and arranging a ride together for lunch.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride1.jpg?resize=584%2C652\" alt=\"Bossride1\" width=\"584\" height=\"652\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride1.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride1.jpg?resize=300%2C335&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride1.jpg?resize=134%2C150&amp;ssl=1 134w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride1.jpg?resize=268%2C300&amp;ssl=1 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride2.jpg?resize=584%2C532\" alt=\"Bossride2\" width=\"584\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride2.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride2.jpg?resize=300%2C273&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride2.jpg?resize=150%2C136&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bossride2.jpg?resize=329%2C300&amp;ssl=1 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>Life is short:  combine business with pleasure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was a great day &#8212; lightly-staffed &#8220;catch-up&#8221; day at the office. The boss and I caught up on a lot of things. By about 1130, we turned to each other and said, &#8220;let&#8217;s ride.&#8221; Yep, the boss and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=7846\">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":[31,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","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\/7846","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=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}