{"id":39,"date":"2007-12-26T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timeoff.org\/wp-rp\/2007\/12\/26\/youve-got-balls\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T13:56:15","slug":"youve-got-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2007\/12\/26\/youve-got-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Got Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the parking lot of the local <a title=\"Wawa convenience stores\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wawa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaWa<\/a> strapping a jug of milk to the sissy bar of my motorcycle. For a winter day in New Jersey this wasn&#8217;t a bad one &#8211; temperature around 40 and the rain of the past several days had given way to overcast. Today&#8217;s ride was a good one and now I was on my way home.<\/p>\n<p>The old guy diverted from his path to the store and stopped to talk. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got balls,&#8221; he said, &#8220;out riding in this weather. I know &#8211; when I was younger I did it, too.&#8221; I hadn&#8217;t thought of the day as particularly cold. I&#8217;ve certainly been out in much worse. We talked for several minutes, and he smiled and laughed as he spoke of the past.<\/p>\n<p>I thumbed the starter. The engine came to life and settled into that characteristic V-twin idle as I pulled on my gloves. I think the old guy walked a little taller, a little straighter, as he continued into the store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the parking lot of the local WaWa strapping a jug of milk to the sissy bar of my motorcycle. For a winter day in New Jersey this wasn&#8217;t a bad one &#8211; temperature around 40 and the rain of the past several days had given way to overcast. Today&#8217;s ride was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2007\/12\/26\/youve-got-balls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You&#8217;ve Got Balls<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[103,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}