{"id":251,"date":"2010-12-05T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storyresolution.org\/?p=251"},"modified":"2010-12-05T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T21:55:40","slug":"a-sticky-motorcycle-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/a-sticky-motorcycle-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sticky Motorcycle Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/storyresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/easy_riders.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-254\" title=\"easy_riders\" src=\"http:\/\/storyresolution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/easy_riders-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sometimes our stories are so attractive, or so seductive, that we resist amending them in the face of contravening experience. This little story is embarrassingly close to how our minds often work:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A mischievous motorcyclist is cruising along a back highway, on a dark night, when he sees two lights in the oncoming lane. The two lights are far apart. \u00a0The cyclist recognizes these lights as two side-by-side motorcyclists riding toward him, and gets an idea. He decides to pop into their lane at the last moment, pass between them, and give them a good fright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As it turns out, the separated lights are headlights on an unusually wide car. The mischievous cyclist crashes and rolls over the top of the car. The cyclist wakes up in the hospital and says to the nurse: \u201cthose guys must&#8217;a been holdin hands\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes our stories are so attractive, or so seductive, that we resist amending them in the face of contravening experience. This little story is embarrassingly close to how our minds often work: A mischievous motorcyclist is cruising along a back &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/a-sticky-motorcycle-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-stoired-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyresolution.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}