{"id":21,"date":"2008-12-20T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-12-20T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T22:51:40","slug":"car-lust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Car lust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-76\" title=\"bmw\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.austinity.com\/2008\/12\/bmw-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"bmw\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did I mention I have a fascination for cars? Well, I do. So far I&#8217;ve convinced myself that buying new cars every so often is a bad idea, since it&#8217;s the fastest way known to mankind to destroy money (that was before we learned about Detroit&#8217;s big three, that were apparently able to burn through more money faster than the buyers of their products). So I&#8217;ve managed to always buy used cars so far. I also found that a good way to curb my desire for new wheels is not to subscibe to any car magazines. But off and on I see a car on the road that really catches my eye. The last time this happened, was when I saw the current BMW 3-series coupe for the first time. After all these awful Bangle designs, how could it be that such a beauty made it to production? Was bangle on vacation, or maybe on drugs? In any case the result was stunning! So maybe, just maybe if the Diva (that&#8217;s how MrsM calls my current car) dies eventually, my next car might just be a 3-series coupe. But by then I&#8217;m sure another car has caught my eye. Did anyone say Cayman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I mention I have a fascination for cars? Well, I do. So far I&#8217;ve convinced myself that buying new cars every so often is a bad idea, since it&#8217;s the fastest way known to mankind to destroy money (that was before we learned about Detroit&#8217;s big three, that were apparently able to burn through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Car lust<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}