{"id":12703,"date":"2018-11-12T23:58:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T04:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=12703"},"modified":"2018-11-12T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T04:58:16","slug":"my-roadkill-ridealongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/my-roadkill-ridealongs\/","title":{"rendered":"My Roadkill Ridealongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a 49 second outtake from my podcast on how the government ruined my work ethic &#8211;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 850px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-12703-1\" width=\"850\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/podcast-roadkill-ride-along-shrunk-hopefully.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/podcast-roadkill-ride-along-shrunk-hopefully.mp4\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/podcast-roadkill-ride-along-shrunk-hopefully.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the full video from which this was plucked &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Freedom Frauds: How Government Ruined My Work Ethic\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6oZnsBXD7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a 49 second outtake from my podcast on how the government ruined my work ethic &#8211; And here&#8217;s the full video from which this was plucked &#8211; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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