{"id":103396,"date":"2020-08-08T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T16:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103396"},"modified":"2020-08-08T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:26:39","slug":"update-on-sturgis-bike-rally-as-of-8-8-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103396","title":{"rendered":"Update on Sturgis Bike Rally as of 8-8-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstpImages\/repository\/2020-08\/SturgisBikeRally-08.05.16.jpg\" alt=\"In this Aug. 5, 2016 file photo, bikers ride down Main Street in downtown Sturgis, S.D., before the 76th Sturgis motorcycle rally officially begins.\" width=\"588\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"hbi-story-media-credit\">Photo: Josh Morgan\/Rapid City Journal via AP.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hbi-story-media-caption\">In this Aug. 5, 2016 file photo, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hbi-story-media-caption\">bikers ride down Main Street in downtown Sturgis, S.D., <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hbi-story-media-caption\">before the 76th Sturgis motorcycle rally officially begins.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>This one&#8217;s for our WOT firster, 5th\/77th hisself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the live camera view at Sturgis.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/live-video-motorcyclists-begin-to-gather-in-sturgis-south-dakota\/5820\">https:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/live-video-motorcyclists-begin-to-gather-in-sturgis-south-dakota\/5820<\/a>107\/<\/p>\n<p>There are several different camera angles, with the arrow &lt;- to putz, to start the video, but the town of Sturgis, SD, is expecting about 250,000 this time, and the city council and the town&#8217;s residents are very concerned about how this will affect them personally in regard to the invasion of the coronavirus pandemic thing.\u00a0 And what about food supplies and bathroom facilities? Does Sturgis always attract this big a crowd, or is it just our rebelliousness as Americans, used to moving about freely and at will, that is propelling this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/sturgis-rally-still-a-go-in-south-dakota-as-many-as-250000-people-expected-to-attend-august-3-2020\/5815528\/\">https:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/sturgis-rally-still-a-go-in-south-dakota-as-many-as-250000-people-expected-to-attend-august-3-2020\/5815528\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be concerned, also, if they really are expecting that big a crowd.<\/p>\n<p>BUT:\u00a0 <em>This is what happens when you tell people raised in a free country that they can&#8217;t have their freedom &#8216;because I said so&#8217;<\/em>, as spouted by fearful control freaks who detest real freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Photo: Josh Morgan\/Rapid City Journal via AP.\u00a0In this Aug. 5, 2016 file photo, bikers ride &hellip; <a title=\"Update on Sturgis Bike Rally as of 8-8-2020\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103396\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on Sturgis Bike Rally as of 8-8-2020<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103397,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103396\/revisions\/103397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}