{"id":4505,"date":"2011-07-15T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2011-07-15T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:50:50","slug":"the-shooting-brake-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4505","title":{"rendered":"The Shooting Brake, revisited."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve finally had a chance to drive and ride in a Volvo C30, which is a very nice car. <\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s underpowered for the money it costs, but not dramatically so. it&#8217;s also small. it looks like it should be bigger, in pictures, but if you&#8217;re going to toss a couple shotguns and a dog in the back, they better be doubles in short leather cases. An assembled auto would be impossible. <\/p>\n<p>Still, a shooting brake isn&#8217;t supposed to be exciting or luxurious, it&#8217;s supposed to take you and your dog(s) and guns and maybe one of your friends to a place where you can shoot some birds. For that, this would be a fine ride. Nicer still if it came with either a little more engine  for more performance, or a little less for better economy. the 5 cylinder seems to be the worst of both worlds. Still, I like the way it looks, for a volvo, and is reminiscent of the old 1800 Estate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve finally had a chance to drive and ride in a Volvo C30, which is a very nice car. it&#8217;s underpowered for the money it costs, but not dramatically so. it&#8217;s also small. it looks like it should be bigger, in pictures, but if you&#8217;re going to toss a couple shotguns and a dog [&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-4505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505"}],"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=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}