{"id":3834,"date":"2011-12-07T17:36:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2011-12-07T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:36:22","slug":"royalty-rusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3834","title":{"rendered":"Royalty, rusting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/C-jaguar-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/C-jaguar-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"C-jaguar-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3835\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crippledcollie.com\/images\/jaguar-1.JPG\">[Click here for High-Res]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I&#8217;ve never been badly afflicted with a craving for fancy cars. However, I&#8217;ve had a thing for Jaguars ever since I was a teen-ager &#8212; the sedans, not so much the sporty types. I came across this old guy today on a country backroad north of me, parked outside a garage. I believe it&#8217;s a 1957.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to manage my thing for Jaguars by renting one occasionally for a road trip. One of the best road trips I ever had was in a Jaguar S-type, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, down Highway 1 along the coast. Driving down, when I was in the lane on the ocean side, I took it easy. But heading north on the return to San Francisco, with an empty lane between the car and a long descent into the Pacific, I must admit that I let that Jaguar show me what it could do, and it was thrilling &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jaguar-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jaguar-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jaguar-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3836\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jaguar-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jaguar-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jaguar-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3836\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click here for High-Res] Fortunately I&#8217;ve never been badly afflicted with a craving for fancy cars. However, I&#8217;ve had a thing for Jaguars ever since I was a teen-ager &#8212; the sedans, not so much the sporty types. I came across this old guy today on a country backroad north of me, parked outside a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3834\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Royalty, rusting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}