{"id":1948,"date":"2010-02-13T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/13\/2010-2-12-old-cars-east-asia-style-html\/"},"modified":"2010-02-13T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:31:00","slug":"2010-2-12-old-cars-east-asia-style-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/2010-2-12-old-cars-east-asia-style-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Cars, East Asia Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/rx-3sp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/rx-3sp.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rest assured.\" \/><\/a><br \/>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a sucker for new words, coined sometimes on the fly, perfect for the task, melodious to the ear. Today I stumbled upon a word that is so precise and that I can really wrap my arms around that I had to share:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Mazdafarian&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A definition isn&#8217;t really required when you gaze upon this page from the brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/japanesenostalgiccar.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/the-art-of-mazda-rx-3-covers-and-catalogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese Nostalgic Car<\/a> blog. Mazda fans who approach the hobby with a laid-back but religious zeal? That&#8217;s as good as any.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I could waste a lot of time poking through their collections of weirdo Japanese transportation built back in the days when they weren&#8217;t intended to be appliances, but as emotional as they could be. The &#8220;J-tin&#8221; collector hobby is growing, particularly on the West Coast, and I&#8217;m gonna need to head to Orange County for the next event. I wonder if I could find a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/japanesenostalgiccar.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/events-jccs-part-six-truck-yeah-and-some-race-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">rotary pickup<\/a> for cheap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need another car. I don&#8217;t need another car. I don&#8217;t need another car. I don&#8217;t need another car. I don&#8217;t need another car. I don&#8217;t need another car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<p>(via the indispensable <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hemmings.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/12\/jnc-speaking-the-common-language-of-coolness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hemmings Auto Blogs<\/a>. Thanks!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I&#8217;m a sucker for new words, coined sometimes on the fly, perfect for the task, melodious to the ear. Today I stumbled upon a word that is so precise and that I can really wrap my arms around that I had to share: &#8220;Mazdafarian&#8221; A definition isn&#8217;t really required when you gaze upon this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/2010-2-12-old-cars-east-asia-style-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Cars, East Asia Style&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}