{"id":2873,"date":"2010-03-17T01:19:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2010-03-17T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:19:07","slug":"the-real-kick-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2010\/03\/17\/the-real-kick-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Kick Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reallifesuperheroesarchive.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/geist-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33617\" alt=\"geist-16\" src=\"http:\/\/reallifesuperheroesarchive.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/geist-16.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Meet Geist, bond fide costumed crime-fighter<br \/>\nOriginally published in March 2010 edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/magazine\/\">Empire Magazine<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nBy Own Williams<br \/>\n\u201cBeing a Superhero is a crazy, unorthodox idea, but it\u2019s a fun way to something good,\u201d says Geist, one of several hundred costumed vigilantes currently active in the USA. On his nightly patrols he\u2019s defused domestic violence, broken up bar brawlers and reclaimed gang territory, not to mention uncovering a fake cop given to pulling over teenage girls an asking them to do \u201ccreepy things\u201d and helping out during the 2007 Minnesota floods.<br \/>\nReactions to his arrival are mixed. The first state trooper he encountered at the floods \u201cput his hand on his Taser and locked me up and down\u201d before sending him in the right direction. But he says his local cops are content that he\u2019s fighting for good- \u201cAlthough they\u2019d prefer I stick to charity work.\u201d<br \/>\nHe describes his look as that of an \u201curban detective cowboy\u201d, while the name translates simply as \u201cghost\u201d or \u201cspirit\u201d. Geist is \u201csomeone who appears out of nowhere, does what\u2019s necessary\u201d than vanishes.<br \/>\n\u201cI try not to hang around,\u201d he says. \u201cI become a lot less interesting when I do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geist is featured in the March 2010 edition of Empire Magazine. His profile is included as a sidebar to the main feature, Kick-Ass the Movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[510,525,765,1017,1417,1710,2548,2600,2795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873"}],"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=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}