{"id":7742,"date":"2020-03-15T06:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T13:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2020-03-15T06:11:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T13:11:23","slug":"interesting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/15\/interesting-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had a few words of wisdom for everyone concerning this COVID 19 thing, but I do not, other than to say we&#8217;ll get through this, don&#8217;t hoard, and wash your hands.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the extent of my advice, so let&#8217;s get on to lighter stuff, which I could sure use a good dose of these days.\u00a0 Good buddy Duane sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-11\/royal-enfield-int650-motorcycle-review-reliable-cool-value\">link<\/a> for an Enfield story to me a day or two ago from Bloomberg news.\u00a0 When I saw the source I thought perhaps Duane had gone over to the dark side (you know, Bloomberg and all), but I guess even egomaniacal billionaires like Mike (who obviously didn&#8217;t make it happen) find an acorn once in a while.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-11\/royal-enfield-int650-motorcycle-review-reliable-cool-value\">This is a story on the new Enfield<\/a>, and they did a pretty good job with it.<\/p>\n<p>Then another Enfield story popped up in my Facebook feed with a very cool Enfield video.\u00a0 It&#8217;s light, I enjoyed it, and it pretty much sums up my feeling about motorcycles these days:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gdYDVufxkV4\" width=\"876\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy, folks, and keep the faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had a few words of wisdom for everyone concerning this COVID 19 thing, but I do not, other than to say we&#8217;ll get through this, don&#8217;t hoard, and wash your hands.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the extent of my advice, so let&#8217;s get on to lighter stuff, which I could sure use a good dose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/15\/interesting-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interesting Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96,610],"tags":[1080,1078,1079,419],"class_list":["post-7742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","category-royal-enfield","tag-covid-19","tag-mike-bloomberg","tag-mike-will-make-it-happen","tag-royal-enfield"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7743,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}