{"id":2678,"date":"2010-12-04T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:32:33","slug":"no-worries-im-used-to-getting-lots-of-incredulous-stares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"No worries, I&#8217;m used to getting lots of incredulous stares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/december_ride_2010.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>After hours of clearing sidewalks around my neighborhood, I couldn&#8217;t resist. I went for a brief ride, just long enough to run down to the Capitol and pose for a quick shot.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I got a lot of surprised stares and double-takes from people in their cars. I&#8217;m actually not the most hardcore winter motorcyclist out there; this was a novelty trip for me. I&#8217;ve seen other people out over the winter with studded tires on their bikes, clearly running errands or going to work. Now THAT is hardcore.<\/p>\n<p>Knobby tires don&#8217;t give much traction in the really messy snow found on roads that aren&#8217;t plowed. Most of the roads I took, however, had been plowed and offered sufficient traction. After taking my little joy ride and snapping a couple of pictures with my cell phone, I figured I&#8217;d been fortunate enough and skated back to the safety of my nice, warm Garage Majal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hours of clearing sidewalks around my neighborhood, I couldn&#8217;t resist. I went for a brief ride, just long enough to run down to the Capitol and pose for a quick shot. Yes, I got a lot of surprised stares &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2678\">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":[20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycles","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","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=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}