{"id":8082,"date":"2020-03-31T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2020-03-31T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:10:10","slug":"the-apple-doesnt-fall-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/31\/the-apple-doesnt-fall-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The apple doesn’t fall far…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago I wrote a book about police and military motorcycles, and while I was writing it, good buddy Mike found a photograph in the New Brunswick Police Department archives of Ralph Dowgin, a New Jersey State Trooper.\u00a0 The photo is awesome, and Paladin Press (my publisher) instantly knew it would be the cover:<\/p>\n

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The Trooper on the cover of my book was Ralph Dowgin, who later rose to high rank in the New Jersey State Police.\u00a0 Coincidentally, the Dowgin family lived one town over from us in New Jersey when I was a kid. \u00a0 My Dad knew Ralph Dowgin and spoke of him in reverential tones, so when Mike found the Dowgin photo it was extra special to me.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, while on Facebook, another photo popped up that had my immediate and complete attention.\u00a0 Check this out, and then let me tell you the story behind it:<\/p>\n

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You might be thinking:\u00a0 Okay, it’s a picture of a guy on a vintage Honda Scrambler, but what’s your point?<\/p>\n

Let me tell you:\u00a0 The man on that Honda Scrambler is Gerry Dowgin.\u00a0 The photo on the top of this blog has Ralph Dowgin on the cover of my book, and the photo below it has Gerry Dowgin on the cover of Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Magazine.<\/i> \u00a0 Gerry is Ralph Dowgin’s son!<\/p>\n

Gerry is about four years older than me, so we didn’t know each other growing up, but he knew my cousin Sandy and we knew a lot of the same people in central Jersey.\u00a0 I just wrapped up a nice telephone conversation with Gerry.\u00a0 He invited me to ride with him when I’m back in New Jersey, and I invited him to ride with me when he’s out in California.\u00a0 What a small world we live in!<\/p>\n

Good times, folks, and I’m really looking forward to meeting Gerry in person!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Years ago I wrote a book about police and military motorcycles, and while I was writing it, good buddy Mike found a photograph in the New Brunswick Police Department archives of Ralph Dowgin, a New Jersey State Trooper.\u00a0 The photo is awesome, and Paladin Press (my publisher) instantly knew it would be the cover: The … Continue reading “The apple doesn’t fall far…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,140],"tags":[158,453],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","category-vintage-motorcycle","tag-new-jersey","tag-police-motorcycles"],"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\/8082","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=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8088,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}