{"id":268,"date":"2005-03-21T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2005-03-21T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T08:43:00","slug":"time-machine-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>80 year old John DeLorean dead.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"John DeLorean, Innovative Automaker, Dies at 80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2005%2F03%2F20%2Fbusiness%2Fjohn-delorean-innovative-automaker-dies-at-80.html#?secret=lZ7NnGnnx3\" data-secret=\"lZ7NnGnnx3\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;You can&#8217;t discount the value of the Back to the Future movies,&#8221; James Espey, the vice president of DeLorean Motor, said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People who saw the cars in the movies in their teens, these are people in their early, mid 30&#8217;s, well established, and they now can get the car they wanted when they were a kid.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>They may have had mechanical troubles, and they may have leaked, but damn&#8230; that was a fine car.<\/p>\n<p>And he may have tried to deal cocaine to save his car company, and he may have worn shirts open to the navel, but damn&#8230; gotta love those mavericks who try to spice life up a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>80 year old John DeLorean dead. &#8220;You can&#8217;t discount the value of the Back to the Future movies,&#8221; James Espey, the vice president of DeLorean Motor, said yesterday. &#8220;People who saw the cars in the movies in their teens, these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=268\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}