{"id":355,"date":"2008-10-02T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2008-10-02T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T17:16:40","slug":"new-honda-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/new-honda-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"New Honda Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/10\/02\/paris-2008-honda-insight-live-reveal\/\">article<\/a> (w\/ pics) of the new Honda insight. It&#8217;s more Prius-like than its predecessor, which also sported weird little flaps that covered half the rear tire. To my eye, at lease, those covers made the car look cheap and plastic-y. <\/p>\n<p>I never understood the compulsion to make electric and hybrid cars look like something out of Logan&#8217;s Run. Case in point, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aptera.com\/\">Aptera<\/a>. Yeah, it looks cool, sure, but it also looks fragile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw this article (w\/ pics) of the new Honda insight. It&#8217;s more Prius-like than its predecessor, which also sported weird little flaps that covered half the rear tire. To my eye, at lease, those covers made the car look cheap and plastic-y. I never understood the compulsion to make electric and hybrid cars look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-thoughts","category-gregs-reference","category-rant-andor-rave","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-5J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}