{"id":912,"date":"2007-10-31T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=912"},"modified":"2007-10-31T00:01:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T07:01:43","slug":"why-real-life-superheroes-have-few-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2007\/10\/31\/why-real-life-superheroes-have-few-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Why real-life superheroes have few friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<span>Stefanie Marsh<\/span><br \/>\nIt is with regret that \u201cGeist\u201d, a self-appointed \u201creal-life superhero\u201d is unable to accept your request for friendship. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have a secret identity,\u201d he writes, \u201cfor your own safety and protection, I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll need to turn down your kind request to become MySpace Friends.\u201d<br \/>\nGeist, a resident of Minnesota \u2013 real name and age unknown \u2013 spends his spare time dressed up as a masked Lone Ranger, attempting to \u201cmake my city of Rochester a better, kinder and safer place\u201d. This he does by, in one instance, helping out incognito during a recent flooding episode: \u201cMy equipment and methods are completely legal,\u201d he states on his blog, but: \u201cI\u2019m prepared to make citizen\u2019s arrests.\u201d Fondly, he recalls the time a man in need \u201ccalled me his Personal Masked Avenger\u201d.<br \/>\nGeist meets other Real-Life Superheroes online: \u201cStreet Hero\u201d, a former prostitute, wears a black eye mask, matching bustier and knee-high boots to protect women working the streets of New York (she is also a martial arts expert); \u201cRed Justice\u201d patrols the New York subway in red briefs and red cape fashioned from an old T-shirt and a sock with eyeholes, encouraging young people to give up their seats to the elderly. \u201cThe Cleanser\u201d picks up litter in a white cape and yellow rubber gloves. \u201cThe Super\u201d fixes minor electrical faults in a red cape, a yellow shirt, green braces and green tights. Their cause is noble \u2013 \u201can unorthodox approach to doing good\u201d \u2013 but is it surprising when \u201cThe Super\u201d admits that in real life he has few friends? \u201cA lot of real-life superheroes stumble along the way. And part of it can definitely make you feel isolated, like nobody understands you.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/women.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/women\/the_way_we_live\/article2772355.ece\">http:\/\/women.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/women\/the_way_we_live\/article2772355.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Stefanie Marsh It is with regret that \u201cGeist\u201d, a self-appointed \u201creal-life superhero\u201d is unable to accept your request for friendship. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have a secret identity,\u201d he writes, \u201cfor your own safety and protection, I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll need to turn down your kind request to become MySpace Friends.\u201d Geist, a resident of Minnesota \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1017,1537,1710,1840,2173,2181,2193,2513,2548,2655,2699,2795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}