{"id":822,"date":"2010-06-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2010-06-02T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:00:00","slug":"bizzarro-rider-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Bizzarro Rider&quot; &#8212; WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">This guy was on a police-escorted ride to Rolling Thunder held May 30, 2010, in Washington, DC.  I&#8217;ve seen some riders dressed in some bizarre outfits in my day, but this one takes the cake.<\/p>\n<p>Words can&#8217;t explain&#8230;.  Just what <i>are those things on his feet?<\/i>  Mid-length leather jacket &#8230; shorts &#8230; foot-thingies that give no ankle protection???  Open-faced helmet with sunglasses and no windscreen???  Bug or rock ===> OUCH!  And this is all whilst going 60mph on the Washington Beltway!<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  get in gear and get booted!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TAVabufVvOI\/AAAAAAAACWA\/fnaYWog9f90\/s1600\/Silly1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 344px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TAVabufVvOI\/AAAAAAAACWA\/fnaYWog9f90\/s400\/Silly1.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477883954148523234\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Photo from someone who was on the ride, lifted from his Facebook posting.  I intentionally blurred the profile, as I didn&#8217;t know this person and didn&#8217;t take the photo.  <i>Note:  this IS a male rider.  Note the hairy legs.  Unblurred facial image confirmed as well.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy was on a police-escorted ride to Rolling Thunder held May 30, 2010, in Washington, DC. I&#8217;ve seen some riders dressed in some bizarre outfits in my day, but this one takes the cake. Words can&#8217;t explain&#8230;. Just what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=822\">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":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-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\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}