{"id":719,"date":"2009-08-11T17:23:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T17:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2009-08-11T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T17:23:28","slug":"fakengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/fakengers\/","title":{"rendered":"fakengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco does not have an exclusive license on hipsters and messenger wannabes, oddly called fakengers in other parts of the country<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/article\/20090811\/LIFE\/908110302\">Bike Messenger envy, Philadelphia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/damonabnormal\/3621988573\/\" title=\"encircled!!! (by damonabnormal)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3638\/3621988573_e34ac5b6f5.jpg\" title=\"encircled!!! (by damonabnormal)\" alt=\"encircled!!! (by damonabnormal)\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Labeled &#8220;fakengers&#8221; or &#8220;FAMs&#8221; (for &#8220;fake-ass messengers&#8221;) by their detractors, the burgeoning ranks of courier-emulators make up a peculiar breed. Though often employed in another field &#8212; or, as the oft-true stereotype goes, enrolled in art school &#8212; members of this band of twentysomethings have taken to messengers&#8217; garb, gear and wheels in tremendous numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfist.com\/2009\/08\/11\/the_fixed_gear_bike_is_officially_d.php\">and it&#8217;s gone corporate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>which has resulted in the inevitable bike accessory for real bike messengers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/3762571558\/\" title=\"P1020071 (by auweia)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2666\/3762571558_2e388565f3.jpg\" title=\"P1020071 (by auweia)\" alt=\"P1020071 (by auweia)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a real bike messenger, in New York, and because looking cool is a matter of life and death in todays society, a simple leg amputation seems like a small price to pay for social acceptance, no?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jOG83-TwIuM&#038;color1=0xd6d6d6&#038;color2=0xf0f0f0&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jOG83-TwIuM&#038;color1=0xd6d6d6&#038;color2=0xf0f0f0&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco does not have an exclusive license on hipsters and messenger wannabes, oddly called fakengers in other parts of the country Bike Messenger envy, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-bike","tag-3-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}