{"id":2181,"date":"2009-10-20T07:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2013-06-14T23:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T04:55:05","slug":"the-older-i-get-the-faster-i-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"The older I get, the faster I was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/kneedraggin_turn6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I turn the big four-oh this week, and suddenly 40 doesn&#8217;t seem so old. I&#8217;m still pretty darn fast on a motorcycle, I&#8217;m throwing around my toddlers like a young dad, and I just had a tickle fight with my wife Sunday night (which I won). Age is in the heart.<\/p>\n<p>I brought home a 4,000 DPI slide scanner from work to go through a pile of my racing slides from a few short years ago, which is where the above photo came from. I&#8217;ve got a bunch more to go, now that I&#8217;m done with a mega photo scanning job of old family prints. Slides go MUCH more slowly, even if the guy on them is going pretty fast. Boy, do I miss racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turn the big four-oh this week, and suddenly 40 doesn&#8217;t seem so old. I&#8217;m still pretty darn fast on a motorcycle, I&#8217;m throwing around my toddlers like a young dad, and I just had a tickle fight with my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}