{"id":198,"date":"2008-07-10T07:45:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=198"},"modified":"2008-07-10T07:45:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T13:45:57","slug":"cotton-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Cotton kills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone who’s ever been camping when it’s less than 10\u00b0<\/strong>C knows that you shouldn’t wear cotton, since it absorbs moisture and when you stop hiking\/hauling wood\/drinking liquor by the fire, your sweat-soaked clothes then keep you cold. Then you get hypothermia, death or just have a bad time. That’s why you wear wool, silk or polypropylene next to your skin. I have camped in the cold and I did not die, instead I had a great time.<\/p>\n

Anyone who’s ever spent any time being active in hot weather knows that a cotton\/polyester blend offers superior breathability and wicking than just straight cotton. I’m no stranger to being active in hot weather.<\/p>\n

While plain cotton t-shirts (vee neck, extra large tall) are a staple of my wardrobe because they’re cheap, easy to clean and look nice – which is why I think I put one on this morning instead of the myriad of 50\/50 poly\/cotton shirts I own. Why I didn’t realize I would be arriving at work with a heavy, sweat-soaked, non-breathing plain white cotton shirt is beyond me.<\/p>\n

I need some cotton\/poly XLT vee neck white t-shirts.<\/p>\n

And to ride my bike to work more often. It’s nice. You get to ponder the mysteries of life, the beauty and elegance of your human-powered two wheel machine, spend time thinking about the condition of the road & blissfully ignore the assholes behind you honking. Seriously, guys, go read this<\/a> and this<\/a> and this<\/a> and this<\/a>. Or let me just spell it out for you:<\/p>\n

625 ILCS 5\/11-1502– Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles
\nSec. 11-1502.Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles. Every person riding a bicycle upon a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Same road, same rights, same rules. But you can get away with wearing a plain t-shirt in a car in the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone who’s ever been camping when it’s less than 10\u00b0C knows that you shouldn’t wear cotton, since it absorbs moisture and when you stop hiking\/hauling wood\/drinking liquor by the fire, your sweat-soaked clothes then keep you cold. Then you get hypothermia, death or just have a bad time. That’s why you wear wool, silk or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}