{"id":40278,"date":"2023-03-19T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T13:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40278"},"modified":"2023-03-19T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T13:14:04","slug":"hells-virtue-signalers-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/03\/19\/hells-virtue-signalers-on-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell&#8217;s Virtue Signalers on Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hell's Virtue Signaler on Wheels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52757353775\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52757353775_737aa7dbd4_z.jpg?resize=512%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hell's Virtue Signaler on Wheels\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This was a cartoon I did a year ago but put away because I didn&#8217;t think the trend would last. The joke was stale so why bother? I decided to dig out the sketchbook it was in and finish it off when I saw two of these guys whizzing down bike lanes on electric scooters seconds apart. In addition to the scooter powered by zero emission unicorn farts, their ensembles include a mask to protect them from the outside world. Even the most hypochondriacal maiden aunt in your family doesn&#8217;t bother with a mask any more, but the electric scooter people never got the memo.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s wrong with a bicycle? You&#8217;ll get where you&#8217;re going and get some exercise as well.<\/p>\n<p>I am far from the manliest man in the world, but modern males make me feel as if I\u2019m <em>Lee Marvin<\/em> in comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a cartoon I did a year ago but put away because I didn&#8217;t think the trend would last. The joke was stale so why bother? I decided to dig out the sketchbook it was in and finish it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/03\/19\/hells-virtue-signalers-on-wheels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,16],"tags":[158,312,1174,43,3661,5,5591,25],"class_list":["post-40278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-analog","tag-comic","tag-electric","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-scooter","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-atE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23031,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/12\/28\/another-heaven-sent-sketchbook\/","url_meta":{"origin":40278,"position":0},"title":"Another Heaven Sent Sketchbook?","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year I had the good fortune of receiving a Christmas present of a cheap and cheap looking sketchbook that looked like nothing more than an overly large scratch pad to be kept by the telephone for jotting down numbers. 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