{"id":152,"date":"2010-08-31T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.net\/2010\/08\/31\/sneak-preview\/"},"modified":"2017-01-17T22:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T09:08:57","slug":"sneak-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"The sensible thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-482\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/s4_rear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/s4_rear.jpg 533w, https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/s4_rear-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 85vw, 533px\" \/><br \/>\nWhen the recession bites and the company you work for is working very hard to keep sales figures up, a bachelor must do the sensible thing and buy an expensive luxury sports car. Seriously though, I haven&#8217;t explored NZ enough and I want to do it in a wee bit of style. I&#8217;ve never owned a vehicle with electric windows, central locking or any of that. Now I have very cool car with automagical everything &#8211; a proper GT car (Gran Turismo). It also goes like a stabbed rat and sticks to the road like glue. Fuel consumption is as good as it gets for a 4.2l V8, but cruising at 100km\/h (&#8216;ish) gives about 25mpg. Might never be in a position to own such a luxury again, so I&#8217;m enjoying it while I can! More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the recession bites and the company you work for is working very hard to keep sales figures up, a bachelor must do the sensible thing and buy an expensive luxury sports car. Seriously though, I haven&#8217;t explored NZ enough and I want to do it in a wee bit of style. I&#8217;ve never owned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The sensible thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}