{"id":666,"date":"2011-02-18T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/2011\/02\/all-helmets-are-not-created-equal.html"},"modified":"2011-08-25T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:37:10","slug":"all-helmets-are-not-created-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/2011\/02\/all-helmets-are-not-created-equal.html","title":{"rendered":"All Helmets Are Not Created Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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I really thought this was common sense…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Had I not just<\/a> <\/i>written a post about parents knowingly putting their young children in danger’s way, I would write a long and judgmental blog right now about how I wanted to yell obscenities at a father yesterday while taking a leisurely walk with my husband and our dogs. Instead, I’ll just tell you what I saw.<\/span>
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A man riding a dirt bike through our neighborhood (Strike 1<\/span> – Not a street legal bike) with his toddler-age son (Strike 2<\/span> – Not a double occupancy bike) who was wearing a foam bicycle helmet (Strike 3<\/span> – Not gonna help much your child flies 100 feet and lands head first on the pavement). <\/span>
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Let me end this by saying that I am in no way anti-motorcycle. I grew up riding and racing dirt bikes and ATVs and I think they are a lot of fun, albeit inherently dangerous, when used in the right context and with appropriate safety equipment. My dad has a gorgeous red Harley and he loves it, but I’m not sure I could ever get on one again…after working in the ER they scare the bejeezus out of me <\/span> (on that note, <\/span>dad – please for the love of God get a helmet for that thing<\/i><\/span>). <\/span>If you want to endanger your life, then that’s your choice but please, use your brain when operating heavy machinery and think twice before putting your child’s life at risk.<\/span>

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I really thought this was common sense… Had I not just written a post about parents knowingly putting their young children in danger’s way, I would write a long and judgmental blog right now about how I wanted to yell obscenities at a father yesterday while taking a leisurely walk with my husband and our dogs. Instead, I’ll just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}