{"id":562,"date":"2009-03-06T07:31:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2009-03-07T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:49:40","slug":"bike-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/bike-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I saw a bicyclist get pulled over by a well-paid public servant because he (the bicyclist) wasn&#8217;t wearing a helmet.<\/p>\n<p>I had to wonder how some laws get passed in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>If the government&#8217;s concern was <em>really<\/em> for your safety,<br \/>\nrather than for the lagging sales of bicycle helmets,<br \/>\nthey would require you to take a course<br \/>\nwherein, just like karate,<br \/>\nthe first thing you are taught is how to <strong>fall<\/strong> properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I saw a bicyclist get pulled over by a well-paid public servant because he (the bicyclist) wasn&#8217;t wearing a helmet. I had to wonder how some laws get passed in the first place. If the government&#8217;s concern was really for your safety, rather than for the lagging sales of bicycle helmets, they would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}