{"id":4240,"date":"2011-03-16T05:18:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T10:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2011-03-16T05:18:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T10:18:55","slug":"i-enjoy-watching-top-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4240","title":{"rendered":"I enjoy watching &#8220;Top Gear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though Jeremy Clarkson is the guy I&#8217;m most likely to kick in his arthritic hip and then pee on his lame excuse for hair. (Hint: Jeremy, you can abuse Americans all you want. We will always be the country that wiped our feet on the British Empire first) <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, they reviewed the Nissan Juke the other night, and they had the same thing to say about it as me: Not cool. A car which answers a question nobody is asking. In looks, functionality, and utility, it&#8217;s a Taurus Judge. it&#8217;s the crossover that has a trunk the size of a Honda Civic, apparently, the seating comfort of a Humvee, the ground clearance of a Miata and the styling of a cancerous growth combined with the power and handling of a VW microbus. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten to drive a powerful lot of very nice cars; jags, porsches, benz sport coupes, one Ferarri, a Morgan, a lot of beemers and Audis. It&#8217;s cool and fun to drive a small car fast, and I like doing it. I dont&#8217; like having to muscle my way in and out of one, and I have no illusions that if I wrecked one it would just about end up my coffin. In the later years of my life I might get something small and fast, or do as I do now and rent one from time to time, but my life and work lends itself a lot more to four wheel drive than four wheel steering, and it looks like it always will. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Jeremy Clarkson is the guy I&#8217;m most likely to kick in his arthritic hip and then pee on his lame excuse for hair. (Hint: Jeremy, you can abuse Americans all you want. We will always be the country that wiped our feet on the British Empire first) Anyway, they reviewed the Nissan Juke the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}