{"id":9971,"date":"2015-03-12T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T22:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9971"},"modified":"2015-03-12T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T22:21:16","slug":"im-irritated-with-top-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9971","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m irritated with Top Gear&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.on Monday night, I was watching &#8220;Top Gear&#8221; specifically since they were going to do a review of the new Miata and I hadn&#8217;t seen a review or video of the car so I thought it would be kind of cool&#8230;.and the piece with the Hamster started out good with them driving either a Marina or Laguna blue old one and then getting into the new one&#8230;and Hamster was really impressed with the new car&#8230;loved how it drove&#8230;that it was slow but a perfect sports car&#8230;but then, he just had to trot out the tired, old stereotype of the Miata being a car that only women and hairdressers bought throughout it&#8217;s history&#8230;.now&#8230;I have only known a few women who drove sports cars (T being one of them) and I have never known a hairdresser that owned one&#8230;I will admit that I don&#8217;t know very many hairdressers so that sample may be a little skewed&#8230;.I do know one thing&#8230;or two things&#8230;I&#8217;m not a woman or a hairdresser and I own a Miata&#8230;. just irritated me all to hell that they had to ruin a good segment trying to be cute&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.on Monday night, I was watching &#8220;Top Gear&#8221; specifically since they were going to do a review of the new Miata and I hadn&#8217;t seen a review or video of the car so I thought it would be kind of cool&#8230;.and the piece with the Hamster started out good with them driving either a Marina &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m irritated with Top Gear&#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":[11],"tags":[868,588],"class_list":["post-9971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-miata","tag-top-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971","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=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9973,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions\/9973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}