{"id":22890,"date":"2021-07-30T13:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22890"},"modified":"2021-07-30T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:36:16","slug":"22890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22890","title":{"rendered":"This is just strange&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;okay, let&#8217;s talk about something different today&#8230;not feeling the political thing right now so I want to talk about an ad I saw the other day on the internet that made my jaw drop&#8230;I&#8217;ve owned boats in the past with the largest outboard motor being a 1961 Evinrude 75 horsepower two stroke 4 cylinder&#8230;but yesterday, I saw what I think is just strange&#8230;Mercury Marine just announced what I think is the biggest outboard motor ever built&#8230;a 450 cubic inch V-12 that makes 600 horsepower&#8230;.and that&#8217;s not the strangest part, that is the price&#8230;77,000 dollars&#8230;yep, you saw that right, 77 grand for an outboard? My house only cost 13 grand more&#8230;you can buy a new Corvette for less than that&#8230;you can buy a BMW M3 for less than that&#8230;.who the hell is the market for something like this?\u00a0 Mercury says it&#8217;s for people with 32 to 60 foot boats and those go for close to 200 grand or more so I guess it&#8217;s for people with more money than sense&#8230;.I&#8217;m still shaking my head&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;okay, let&#8217;s talk about something different today&#8230;not feeling the political thing right now so I want to talk about an ad I saw the other day on the internet that made my jaw drop&#8230;I&#8217;ve owned boats in the past with the largest outboard motor being a 1961 Evinrude 75 horsepower two stroke 4 cylinder&#8230;but yesterday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is just strange&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3003],"class_list":["post-22890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-mercury-v-12-outboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22893,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22890\/revisions\/22893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}