{"id":4360,"date":"2014-07-16T20:29:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T01:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2014-07-16T20:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T01:29:31","slug":"car-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4360","title":{"rendered":"Car Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much waiting and bureaucratic hoop-jumping, I drove home in my new Honda Odyssey earlier this week. Automotive\u00a0technology has\u00a0advanced considerably since 1999. My Caravan&#8217;s engine always made its presence known with a steady rumble, but I can barely hear the Odyssey&#8217;s engine. Everything is very sleek and digital and unobtrusive. It&#8217;s like commuting via the starship <em>Enterprise<\/em>. Even the modifications have a futuristic feel. With a single button on the key fob, the sliding door opens and the ramp deploys. The ramp is stowed within the van&#8217;s floor, so I no longer have to listen to it rattle beside me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on vacation next week. I believe I will spend it driving around the lakes and inviting random attractive women to join me.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures will be forthcoming. Of the van, not the women. Unless they&#8217;re into that sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much waiting and bureaucratic hoop-jumping, I drove home in my new Honda Odyssey earlier this week. Automotive\u00a0technology has\u00a0advanced considerably since 1999. My Caravan&#8217;s engine always made its presence known with a steady rumble, but I can barely hear the Odyssey&#8217;s engine. Everything is very sleek and digital and unobtrusive. It&#8217;s like commuting via the <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4360' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","category-personal","category-14-id","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-18k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}