{"id":2148,"date":"2008-07-27T12:49:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T16:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2008-07-27T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T16:49:37","slug":"images-of-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"Images of leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/more\/07\/27\/tour.de.france.ap\/index.html?section=si_latest\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a> this morning&#8230;the endurance of the athletes and the precision and fragility of the equipment fascinates me. The excitement is sort of gone since Lance Armstrong retired, but it&#8217;s still watchable nonetheless. But it (and this post from <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.new.mu.nu\/peaceful_bicycle_advocacy_group_attempts_to_persuade_a_motorist_to_abandon_his_gas-guzzling_ways_genghis\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.new.mu.nu\/peaceful_bicycle_advocacy_group_attempts_to_persuade_a_motorist_to_abandon_his_gas-guzzling_ways_genghis\">Ace of Spades<\/a>) reminded me of these contrasting images. Which one of these bicyclists look like a leader you can respect?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/born-to-be-wild.jpg\" title=\"born-to-be-wild.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/born-to-be-wild.jpg\" title=\"born-to-be-wild.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/born-to-be-wild.jpg\" alt=\"born-to-be-wild.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bush2.jpg\" title=\"bush2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bush2.jpg\" alt=\"bush2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the Tour de France this morning&#8230;the endurance of the athletes and the precision &hellip; <a title=\"Images of leadership\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2148\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Images of leadership<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}