{"id":311,"date":"2005-02-03T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2005-02-03T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T04:48:00","slug":"pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did something new today.  Took a half an hour drive to see a car.  A local Ford dealership has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordvehicles.com\/fordgt\/\">GT <\/a>on display, and Holy Jesus was it worth it.  They made like 5,000 of these things, and they run about $125K.  If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.  Right there in the showroom, besides the disappointing Mustang, is this beast of a vehicle, on display behind a white chain as if it were a piece of art.  Now, if I were a for-real car guy, I&#8217;d be going on about all kinds of details.  I&#8217;m only a dabbler, so all I can say is that it was goddamn hot.  Once again I find myself incapable of waiting for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/Content\/OGS\/SCUS-97328\/Site\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gran Turismo 4<\/span><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the only negative thing I have to say about the Ford GT:  there&#8217;s a sweet looking speaker between the seats.  Why is that negative?  Under what circumstances are you playing the radio while driving this thing?  Aren&#8217;t you supposed to be listening to the angelic (demonic?) hum of the engine behind your head?  Shit, if I owned that car, I&#8217;d have an Ipod with a single mp3 of that sound and would listen to it all the damn time.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did something new today. Took a half an hour drive to see a car. A local Ford dealership has a GT on display, and Holy Jesus was it worth it. They made like 5,000 of these things, and they run about $125K. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up. Right there [&hellip;]<\/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-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}