{"id":7,"date":"2007-07-01T10:29:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timeoff.org\/wp-rp\/?p=7"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:31:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:31:52","slug":"on-harley-davidson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2007\/07\/01\/on-harley-davidson\/","title":{"rendered":"On Harley-Davidson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;A Harley Davidson motorcycle is a marvelous, amazing machine. Imagine, you put a motor between your legs. It&#8217;s basically an old tractor motor that has been modified and refined and refined and refined nearly to perfection. It&#8217;s hooked to a five-speed transmission that you can easily hold in both hands. It sits on two rubber patches that can&#8217;t cover much more than 10 square inches of pavement at a time. It will run well over 100 miles per hour. It will leap forward whether the altitude is 0 or 10,000 feet, whether the temperature is 30\u00c2\u00b0 or 110\u00c2\u00b0. It will run hour after hour, day after day. It starts every time you hit the button&#8211;wet, dry, hot cold&#8211;makes no difference. It will carry you and all you need for any length trip (and if that&#8217;s not enough, it&#8217;ll pull a trailer, too). And, it sounds like no other motorcycle on earth. You can&#8217;t help but enjoy just listening to it: when you are at a stop light or when you just cruise for mile after mile at 85 miles per hour.&#8221;<\/p><p>&#8220;&#8230;&#8230; you are part of the landscape when you are on a motorcycle, rather than observing the landscape as when in a car.&#8221;<\/p><cite><em>Ken Green<\/em><br><em>July 9, 1999<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Harley Davidson motorcycle is a marvelous, amazing machine. Imagine, you put a motor between your legs. It&#8217;s basically an old tractor motor that has been modified and refined and refined and refined nearly to perfection. It&#8217;s hooked to a five-speed transmission that you can easily hold in both hands. It sits on two rubber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2007\/07\/01\/on-harley-davidson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Harley-Davidson<\/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":[103,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}