{"id":2493,"date":"2008-04-30T05:07:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T10:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2008-04-29T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T16:12:19","slug":"a-things-that-would-prompt-mitch-to-stop-bike-commuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2493","title":{"rendered":"A: Something That Might Prompt Mitch To Stop Bike Commuting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 What is the Gryphon?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">\u00a0<strong>It weighs only 30 pounds and can be fully weaponized for assault and rescue. It has a 6-foot jet-wing that is steered with handheld rotary controls connected to its rudder. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/images\/366557\/0_61_042308_gryphon.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And it can hide more than 100 pounds of combat gear in a built-in compartment.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, presumably, laptops, IPods, cell phones and lunch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Gryphon attack glider, designed to penetrate combat zones at 135 miles per hour, could revolutionize the art of parachuting. It has got to be at the top of James Bond\u2019s Christmas list this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, not just Bond.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A vision straight out of &#8220;Batman,&#8221; the carbon-fiber stealth glider quadruples the speed of similar craft \u2014 and there are quite a few special forces soldiers who would like to jump out of a plane at 30,000 feet and give it a whirl.<\/p>\n<p>Its helmet has a heads-up display and provides on-board oxygen for the jump. To land, a soldier separates the wing from his pack and releases his parachute to slow his descent. The wing remains attached to the soldier by a cord and lands before him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My morning commute would be cut from 30 minutes (by bike or bus) to about two.<\/p>\n<p>Provided I could find a door on the top of my building&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 What is the Gryphon? \u00a0It weighs only 30 pounds and can be fully weaponized for assault and rescue. It has a 6-foot jet-wing that is steered with handheld rotary controls connected to its rudder. \u00a0 And it can hide more than 100 pounds of combat gear in a built-in compartment. Or, presumably, laptops, IPods, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}