{"id":189826,"date":"2010-02-08T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/08\/really-bad-ideas-dodge-chrysler-edition\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T04:48:00","slug":"really-bad-ideas-dodge-chrysler-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/08\/really-bad-ideas-dodge-chrysler-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Bad Ideas: Dodge\/Chrysler  Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img717.imageshack.us\/img717\/3051\/challengerfusciatop6508.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img717.imageshack.us\/img717\/3051\/challengerfusciatop6508.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">No, this does <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> look macho!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I know that it&#8217;s kind of like shooting fish in a barrel, but the idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/02\/08\/autos\/dodge_challenger_furious_fuschia\/index.htm\">Dodge will reinvigorate interest in it&#8217;s muscle cars with &#8220;Furious Fuchsia&#8221; special edition Chargers<\/a> is just too stupid to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Fuchsia?  Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>What the hell were you thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, real men don&#8217;t even <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">know<\/span> the world fuchsia.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>This is an aesthetic right up there with the AMC Pacer.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon<sup>\u2020<\/sup> looked at the picture, and said that she, &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t be caught dead in it,&#8221; so the minivan driving mother segment doesn&#8217;t like it either.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Full disclosure:  I&#8217;m not a real man, even if I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">do<\/span> detest quiche, and I can&#8217;t spell fuchsia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Love of my life, light of the cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\"><span>she who must be obeyed<\/span><\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this does not look macho! I know that it&#8217;s kind of like shooting fish in a barrel, but the idea that Dodge will reinvigorate interest in it&#8217;s muscle cars with &#8220;Furious Fuchsia&#8221; special edition Chargers is just too stupid to ignore. Fuchsia? Seriously? What the hell were you thinking? Seriously, real men don&#8217;t even &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,1139,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-automobile","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}