{"id":2412,"date":"2007-05-15T07:45:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T13:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:41:45","slug":"helmet-saves-man-run-over-by-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/helmet-saves-man-run-over-by-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmet saves man run over by truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can debate the coolness of a helmet or not, but I think it might be time to go buy myself one after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2007\/05\/cyclists_head_r.php\">seeing this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ryan Lipscomb of Madison, Wisconsin is alive to tell of a truck running right over his head. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head. It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head.&#8221; The truck just kept on going, as they so often do, usually saying that they didn&#8217;t know they hit anything. The police and Lipscomb think otherwise: &#8220;The truck driver definitely would have known. You know when you run over a curb and my head was definitely higher than a curb.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My buddy <strong>Dave McHam<\/strong> has taken to riding his bike all over town with $3 a gallon gas prices. He said driving his truck just doesn&#8217;t make sense. So he rides his bike to Red Oak each day (about 12-15 miles one way).<br \/>\nGetting much better exercise and saving loads of money I&#8217;m sure. Sounds like a great idea but I&#8217;d definitely want a Giro first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can debate the coolness of a helmet or not, but I think it might be time to go buy myself one after seeing this story: Ryan Lipscomb of Madison, Wisconsin is alive to tell of a truck running right over his head. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/helmet-saves-man-run-over-by-truck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Helmet saves man run over by truck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,3,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-hacks","category-misc","category-newsandpop","category-treehugging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-CU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}