{"id":725,"date":"2008-12-21T00:17:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T07:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/?p=725"},"modified":"2010-03-21T00:21:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T07:21:58","slug":"a-little-mid-winter-gloating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/2008\/12\/21\/a-little-mid-winter-gloating\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Mid-Winter Gloating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a lot of the biker blogs I read, the riders are closing up shop for the winter.  It\u2019s getting too cold to ride, there\u2019s too much ice and snow; so they\u2019re putting Stabil in the gas tank, tucking their bikes in for a long winter\u2019s nap, and counting the days until spring when they can ride again.<\/p>\n<p>But not me.  Here in sunny southern California today, I went for a ride wearing just a flannel and my cut, had brunch on a restaurant\u2019s outdoor patio, and when I got home I picked and ate a tangerine from the tree in my back yard.  Then I put up Christmas decorations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twobuck.smugmug.com\/Boozefighters\/Boozefighters-UP\/IMG4196\/440674782_CAqLV-S.jpg\" alt=\"Biker Santa\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twobuck.smugmug.com\/Boozefighters\/Boozefighters-UP\/IMG4203\/440674812_kYcar-S.jpg\" alt=\"With Sidecar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>68 degrees and sunny on December 21.  Southern California is heaven for a biker\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a lot of the biker blogs I read, the riders are closing up shop for the winter. It\u2019s getting too cold to ride, there\u2019s too much ice and snow; so they\u2019re putting Stabil in the gas tank, tucking their bikes in for a long winter\u2019s nap, and counting the days until spring when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}