{"id":1190,"date":"2012-04-10T06:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T11:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2012-04-10T18:48:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:48:44","slug":"motorcycle-helmet-law-some-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Helmet Law: Some Perspective&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MLMG010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1191\" title=\"Motorcycle Helmet Law: Some Perspective\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MLMG010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MLMG010.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MLMG010-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/04\/MLMG010.jpg&amp;name=Motorcycle Helmet Law: Some Perspective...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Abor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>April 8, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote about considering perspectives that aren\u2019t necessarily my own, keeping an open mind to other approaches, acknowledging that different positions on a topic can more fully develop the understanding of it. This week, well, I\u2019m not saying I was wrong, because I wasn\u2019t. But there are instances where that sort of consideration may be a bit overrated.<\/p>\n<p>So to the motorcyclists who feel the need to express their awesome rebelliousness and disdain for the dern governments by not wearing a helmet, I say, \u201cDo you really wanna be a rebel? Do you really wanna stick it to the man and opt out of our hated democratically elected constitutional republic? Buy yourself $5 million in insurance coverage and then go ride all you want without a helmet. That will show us all! Go ahead, do it! I dare you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ya know&#8230; I guess I made my point, but I felt much better about myself taking the high road last week&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Abor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News April 8, 2012 Last week, I wrote about considering perspectives that aren\u2019t necessarily my own, keeping an open mind to other approaches, acknowledging that different positions on a topic can more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}