{"id":192,"date":"2009-06-19T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T21:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:27:28","slug":"speed-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Speed and Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that hasn&#8217;t changed for me is how much I love take off when I fly.\u00a0\u00a0 It takes a lot of power and a certain amount of speed to get that big weight into the air with just flaps.\u00a0 Funny but it&#8217;s the smaller planes that give me a real sense of the speed.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t need to be sitting in a window seat to get the effect.\u00a0 Just looking out the window to see the speed is enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>Love that power and speed.\u00a0 Someday I hope to take flying lessons and experience all that first hand.\u00a0 And control it.\u00a0 Oooo, shivers.\u00a0 I does it for me, flips that switch and makes me stop and stare.<\/p>\n<p>This love of speed and power is probably why I find sports bikes sooo sexy.\u00a0 Nothing pushes all my button at once than seeing several guys riding in a group all on sports bikes.\u00a0 Of course maybe it&#8217;s the mystery of what they might look like beneath those helmets!\u00a0 Hmmmmm, keep the helmet on&#8230;heighten the fantasy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s just men who like speed and that sense of adventure.\u00a0 Because Harleys and street bikes don&#8217;t do it for me the way sports bikes do.\u00a0 And traveling fast in a car or a train is fast but it doesn&#8217;t do it for me.\u00a0 Something about those sports bikes and the men on them.<\/p>\n<p>Although&#8230;I&#8217;ve never driven a race car.\u00a0\u00a0 Hmmm?\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll add that to the list of &#8220;things to experience before I die or retire.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 That list is getting longer.\u00a0 Fly a plane, learn to play the drums, take voice lessons, drive a\u00a0race car, try _____ sexual act, have a ______ man, do _______\u00a0 _________.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sorry&#8230;list got dirty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that hasn&#8217;t changed for me is how much I love take off when I fly.\u00a0\u00a0 It takes a lot of power and a certain amount of speed to get that big weight into the air with just flaps.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twirling-my-skirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}