{"id":3667,"date":"2010-05-11T07:44:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2010-05-11T07:44:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:44:57","slug":"real-life-costumed-do-gooders-do-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2010\/05\/11\/real-life-costumed-do-gooders-do-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-Life Costumed Do-Gooders Do Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(May 11)&#8211; You&#8217;d probably expect me to rip on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/cgi\/go.pl?i=5289323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real-life people who don spandex<\/a> and head out into their fair cities to help the citizenry and fight crime.<br \/>\nAfter all, to norms, these people are nothing more than carbon copies of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NLkFfkkD4MA&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Star Wars Kid<\/a>, flipping a broom handle around like it&#8217;s a light saber.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/photo-hub\/news_gallery\/6\/6\/664327\/1273596281083.JPEG\" alt=\"Members of the group Superheroes Anonymous\" \/><br \/>\nBut no. I actually think these guys are cool as hell. They&#8217;re doing precisely what I wish I could have done as a teenager, and what I wish I had the courage to do today.<br \/>\nSure, their heroism isn&#8217;t quite up to the vigilante standards of Batman or the Punisher, but hell, helping bring awareness to hunger and homelessness, and cutting off annoying parking predators&#8217; wheel boots, scores them an &#8220;A&#8221; in my book.<br \/>\nYou go, heroes.<br \/>\n-Joe Peacock-<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/weird-news\/article\/superheroes-anonymous-features-real-life-do-gooders-who-do-good\/19473097\">http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/weird-news\/article\/superheroes-anonymous-features-real-life-do-gooders-who-do-good\/19473097<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 11)&#8211; You&#8217;d probably expect me to rip on\u00a0real-life people who don spandex and head out into their fair cities to help the citizenry and fight crime. After all, to norms, these people are nothing more than carbon copies of the\u00a0Star Wars Kid, flipping a broom handle around like it&#8217;s a light saber. But no. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[205,259,1354,1508,2121,2173,2185,2411,2499,2548,2555,2722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667"}],"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=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}