{"id":197,"date":"2007-01-21T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/01\/21\/from-thug-to-dork-for-under-ten-dollars\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T23:25:00","slug":"from-thug-to-dork-for-under-ten-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/01\/21\/from-thug-to-dork-for-under-ten-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"from thug to dork for under ten dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/507-cateye.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021907354811333330\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/508-cateye.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>i jog at night while dressed in black. clever lad, eh? so i was gifted with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cateye-LD100-Red-Safety-Light\/dp\/B000HGDM8E\/ref=pd_sbs_sg_4_img\/002-4989181-0494433\">cateye ld100 flashing red safety light<\/a> for christmas. i didn&#8217;t really <em>want<\/em> to wear it, but then again i didn&#8217;t really <em>want<\/em> to find bits of myself stuck to the undercarriage of a ford f-150 either. so i gave it a try.<\/p>\n<p>as expected, the light seems to increase my visibility to impatient motorists. but there&#8217;s an unexpected side benefit as well: other walkers and runners now find me infinitely less threatening. see, any hard-running dude in a black hoodie represents a potential threat. but a hard-running dude <em>with a flashing red safety light<\/em> is immediately recognizable as a harmless dork. surely no predator would draw attention to himself in this way.<\/p>\n<p>it surely makes my late-night encounters more friendly. i&#8217;ll still cross the street when i come upon a woman walking alone, but there&#8217;s no longer that awkward moment in which my intentions are subject to question. nevertheless, while the flashing light reassures people<em>, <\/em>their dogs are another matter. the light doesn&#8217;t seem to incite them, thank goodness, though a black lab once cocked his head and shot me a sneer, as if to say, <em>whatta dork&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i jog at night while dressed in black. clever lad, eh? so i was gifted with a cateye ld100 flashing red safety light for christmas. i didn&#8217;t really want to wear it, but then again i didn&#8217;t really want to find bits of myself stuck to the undercarriage of a ford f-150 either. so i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}