{"id":1390,"date":"2018-12-31T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T00:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2022-08-08T21:07:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T05:07:02","slug":"random-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/random-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Photo of a Vespa GTS300"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So this was from a while ago, when I was at the Vespa dealer asking all sorts of questions.  The salesguy, after being bombarded with my inquiries, handed me a key, took my CDL and told me, &#8220;don&#8217;t crash&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1251\" height=\"938\" data-attachment-id=\"1391\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/random-photo\/img_2809\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2809.jpg?fit=1251%2C938&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1251,938\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG 2809\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;IMG 2809&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;IMG 2809&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2809.jpg?fit=525%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2809.jpg?fit=525%2C394\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2809.jpg?w=1251&amp;ssl=1 1251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2809.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2809.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2809.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption><em>Parked for lunch across the street from SFFD Station 2<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topspeed.com\/motorcycles\/motorcycle-reviews\/vespa\/2018-vespa-gts-300-gts-300-touring-ar181701.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"GTS300 (opens in a new tab)\">GTS300<\/a> and I took it through the Broadway Tunnel going and over the hills and through traffic on the way back.  After returning to the dealership, the salesguy asked how I liked it.  I replied, &#8220;I get it&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it took me a while to pull the trigger to get my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle.com\/specs\/vespa\/scooter\/2009\/gtv\/250.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"GTV250 (opens in a new tab)\">GTV250<\/a>.  Garage queens are hard to find.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this was from a while ago, when I was at the Vespa dealer asking all sorts of questions. The salesguy, after being bombarded with my inquiries, handed me a key, took my CDL and told me, &#8220;don&#8217;t crash&#8221;. This was a GTS300 and I took it through the Broadway Tunnel going and over the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/random-photo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random Photo of a Vespa GTS300&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-planes-bikes-and-trains","category-the-motorcycle-log"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-mq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}