{"id":4487,"date":"2010-08-04T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2010-08-03T21:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T05:35:39","slug":"excelsior-maximum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2010\/08\/04\/excelsior-maximum\/","title":{"rendered":"Excelsior Maximum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excelsior Maximum is anonymous, his helmet a blank mask split by streamlines, crouched over his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knucklebusterinc.com\/features\/2010\/07\/15\/1930-art-deco-henderson\/\">Henderson Custom<\/a> like a ski-jumper or some brazen rocketeer.  Squealing police cars smash to a stop at the base of the Chrysler building.<\/p>\n<p>Excelsior Maximum escapes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damn him!  Damn you all!&#8221; swears Chief Kilkenny, stomping his hat as the black rider dwindles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do we always chase him?&#8221; grunts the rookie, self-extricating.  &#8220;What did the man do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s 1978,&#8221; snaps Bogard.  &#8220;We outlawed motorcycles fifty years ago!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But can one outlaw the impossible? wonders the rookie, following black tread straight up the building&#8217;s fa&#231;ade.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excelsior Maximum is anonymous, his helmet a blank mask split by streamlines, crouched over his Henderson Custom like a ski-jumper or some brazen rocketeer. Squealing police cars smash to a stop at the base of the Chrysler building. Excelsior Maximum escapes. &#8220;Damn him! Damn you all!&#8221; swears Chief Kilkenny, stomping his hat as the black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2474,2473,2472,2475],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bogard","tag-chief-kilkenny","tag-excelsior-maximum","tag-the-rookie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4490,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}