{"id":497,"date":"2006-01-07T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2006-01-07T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T15:09:00","slug":"zoom-zoom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Zoom zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Received a welcome surprise yesterday upon watching the recent sci-fi release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0399201\/\">The Island<\/a>. Not only is the movie good (the car chase was exciting enough to make me, sitting at home with the lights on viewing the film on my 21&#8243; TV, gasp several times) but it features the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cadillac_Cien\">Cadillac Cien<\/a>, a concept car I just happen to have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bastart\/21460899\/in\/set-499391\/\"> in my garage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Picking the cars for sci-fi movies must be a blast.  Sure, the hero is going to have to drive a slicked-down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/automotive\/concept_cars\/1268366.html\">version <\/a>of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazda.com\/publicity\/release\/200301\/0110be.html\"> latest<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouswheels.com\/top-Lexus-Concept-Minority-Report.htm\">sports<\/a> car from whatever automaker pays the most, but what about all the other ones? Do you use current models with small changes? Do you design all new vehicles based on a few design concepts? Can they fly? Hover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received a welcome surprise yesterday upon watching the recent sci-fi release The Island. Not only is the movie good (the car chase was exciting enough to make me, sitting at home with the lights on viewing the film on my 21&#8243; TV, gasp several times) but it features the Cadillac Cien, a concept car I [&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-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}