{"id":138,"date":"2005-01-07T03:01:24","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T09:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-03-06T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T22:01:02","slug":"the-ultimate-driving-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/the-ultimate-driving-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Driving Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.flickr.com\/2376160_a391377a51.jpg\" width=\"380\" \/><br \/>\nI bought this car about two years ago after owning a few newer, more &#8220;refined&#8221; and &#8220;comfortable&#8221; vehicles. So-called refinement is subjective &#8212; somebody else&#8217;s idea of refinement. And comfort is overrated and again, subjective. This car is a little <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wabi-sabi\">wabi-sabi<\/a> here and there. Worn leather seats and shifter knob. Faint smell of oil and gas &#8212; none of that new car smell (which is really just a marketing term for plastic vapor). And I only get AM radio stations and it plays only cassette tapes. But you know what? This car delivers an authentic driving experience &#8212; you feel the connection to the machine and to the road. Back in &#8217;86 when I was fresh out of college, this was the symbol that you had arrived. Sure it breaks down a little now and then, but I haven&#8217;t loved a car this much since my parent&#8217;s 1968 Dodge Dart which I drove in high school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this car about two years ago after owning a few newer, more &#8220;refined&#8221; and &#8220;comfortable&#8221; vehicles. So-called refinement is subjective &#8212; somebody else&#8217;s idea of refinement. And comfort is overrated and again, subjective. This car is a little wabi-sabi here and there. Worn leather seats and shifter knob. Faint smell of oil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,77,22],"tags":[87,59,60],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw","category-cars","category-design","tag-bmw","tag-car","tag-wabi-sabi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometoalville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}