{"id":2816,"date":"2010-03-08T07:37:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2010-03-08T07:37:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:37:32","slug":"captain-jackson-michigans-real-life-superhero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2010\/03\/08\/captain-jackson-michigans-real-life-superhero\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Jackson, Michigan\u2019s Real-Life Superhero"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"nRSLHzgMww\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/captain-jackson-michigan-real-life-superhero\/\">Captain Jackson, Michigan&#8217;s Real-Life Superhero<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Captain Jackson, Michigan&#8217;s Real-Life Superhero&#8221; &#8212; Laughing Squid\" src=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/captain-jackson-michigan-real-life-superhero\/embed\/#?secret=nRSLHzgMww\" data-secret=\"nRSLHzgMww\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<dl><\/dl>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/author\/ellingson\/\">Josh Ellingson<\/a> on <abbr title=\"2010-03-08\">March 8, 2010<\/abbr><br \/>\nReal-life superheroes may be this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickass-themovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hollywood darling<\/a>, but Michigan has had their very own masked vigilante,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainjackson.org\/captainjackson\/\"> Captain Jackson<\/a> for years. The Captain has been patrolling the streets of Downtown Jackson since 1999, spreading his message of civic duty while keeping an eye out for crooks and super-villains. He keeps a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainjackson.org\/captainjackson\/\">website<\/a> with a schedule of community appearances, safety tips, and even a roster of his allied costume heroes, The Crimefighter Corps. Always ahead of the curve, Captain Jackson has been maintaining a blog since May 2000 called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainjackson.org\/captain_news\/default.asp\">The Captain\u2019s Corner<\/a> with brilliant entries such as, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainjackson.org\/captain_news\/default.asp?cmd=view&amp;articleid=90\">CALLING ALL GOOD DEED DOERS!<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainjackson.org\/captain_news\/default.asp?cmd=view&amp;articleid=65\">BEING AWARE<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainjackson.org\/captain_news\/default.asp?cmd=view&amp;articleid=143\">HOW TO BE A CRIMEFIGHTER<\/a>. In addition, the blog features ground chuck-centric recipes in a section called \u201cCooking with the Captain\u201d.<br \/>\nCaptain Jackson\u2019s career ran into a snag in 2004 when he was charged with \u201cimpaired driving\u201d. The local newspaper subsequently ran an article about the incident and published the Captains real life identity. The toll that the\u00a0 media coverage took on our hero is best outlined in the blog entry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainjackson.org\/captain_news\/default.asp?cmd=view&amp;articleid=196\">ENOUGH IS ENOUGH<\/a>.\u00a0 After a two-year hiatus, it seemed that he was back in active-duty at community events and online. In the past year though, there seems to be little to report on this masked man, but we may not have seen the last of Michigan\u2019s own, Captain Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real-life superheroes may be this year\u2019s Hollywood darling, but Michigan has had their very own masked vigilante, Captain Jackson for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[438,448,1193,1316,1377,1686,2181,2795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}