{"id":366,"date":"2012-08-04T01:29:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T06:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superhero.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=366"},"modified":"2012-08-04T01:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T06:29:22","slug":"patrols-or-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2012\/08\/04\/patrols-or-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrols&#8230;or Missions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Going on Patrol\u2026or Missions?<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nSo\u2026I thought about pulling the Supermobile out tonight for a road patrol or driving to St.Pete for a foot patrol.<br \/>\nAnd I thought to myself \u201c<em>how much have I really accomplished doing that?\u201d <\/em>\u00a0Sure I\u2019ve had random instances over the years of being in the right place at the right time, but they\u2019re few &amp; far between. A car fire here, a mugging there\u2026a drunk guy in a Hover Round here\u2026a lady with here head busted open in a parking lot there. But for the amount of times I\u2019ve struck oil there has been many nights of absolute boredom&#8230;or as I said it in a panel at a con a few years back <em>\u201c95% Boredom for one minute of sheer terror.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nSo anyways I see Zimmer Barnes wrote awhile back about doing Missions instead of patrolling. I\u2019m beginning to think this may be sound logic.<br \/>\nEVERY time I\u2019ve set out with a specific <em>mission<\/em> in mind I\u2019ve pretty much accomplished it, or figured out how to accomplish that goal for the next time.<br \/>\n95% of the times I\u2019ve headed out on <em>patrol<\/em> I\u2019ve ended up Driving around or stopping to pose for pictures with Collage girls or explaining What the Hell I\u2019m doing dressed like this.<br \/>\nThere might be something to this whole mission\u2019s thing, Get specific tasks done, be it Philanthropy or Recruiting or gathering information on a known Dealer or sitting in a specific park that\u2019s having a rash of assaults, however you roll you might be better planning it out then just jumping out the front door in your gimmick &amp; saying <em>\u201cAll right Evil! Here I come!\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nIt\u2019s just food for thought.<br \/>\nOSH<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going on Patrol\u2026or Missions? So\u2026I thought about pulling the Supermobile out tonight for a road patrol or driving to St.Pete for a foot patrol. And I thought to myself \u201chow much have I really accomplished doing that?\u201d \u00a0Sure I\u2019ve had random instances over the years of being in the right place at the right time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,26],"tags":[421,1471,1982,2063,2209,2425,2426,2484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}