{"id":2061,"date":"2011-09-02T04:20:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T04:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/02\/2011-9-2-wankel-no-maam-im-just-looking-html\/"},"modified":"2011-09-02T04:20:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T04:20:43","slug":"2011-9-2-wankel-no-maam-im-just-looking-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/2011-9-2-wankel-no-maam-im-just-looking-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Wankel? No Ma&#8217;am, I&#8217;m Just Looking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/p5qgh3VoJvE\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/beautiful_rotary.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"It is beautiful. Like a sunset filled with gorgeous sadness.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFriends,<\/p>\n<p>News that Mazda has killed <a href=\"http:\/\/mazdausa.com\/MusaWeb\/displayPage.action?pageParameter=modelsMain&#038;vehicleCode=RX8#\/home\" target=\"_blank\">the slow-selling RX-8<\/a> means only one thing&mdash;that the rotary engine will cease to be in production in any of their production vehicles for the first time since the late 60s. They&#8217;re pretty cheap right now as dealers try to clear their remaining inventory, and I&#8217;m thinking that I need a weird four door sports car with a thirsty and smoggy engine at this moment, but a good night&#8217;s sleep should cure that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated with <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/oHzeGEHWMjo\" target=\"_blank\">the engine that goes &#8220;hmmmmmmm,&#8221;<\/a> but not so fascinated to dive into the world of massive oil consumption and blown apex seals. That&#8217;s not to say I couldn&#8217;t, just that I shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If you know somebody who has a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mazda_B-Series#Rotary_Pickup\" target=\"_blank\">Rotary Pickup<\/a> in decent shape, let&#8217;s talk.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, News that Mazda has killed the slow-selling RX-8 means only one thing&mdash;that the rotary engine will cease to be in production in any of their production vehicles for the first time since the late 60s. They&#8217;re pretty cheap right now as dealers try to clear their remaining inventory, and I&#8217;m thinking that I need &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/2011-9-2-wankel-no-maam-im-just-looking-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wankel? No Ma&#8217;am, I&#8217;m Just Looking&#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":[50,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-this-crappy-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","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=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}