{"id":3954,"date":"2012-08-25T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2012-08-26T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T14:31:07","slug":"department-of-vehicular-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2012\/08\/25\/department-of-vehicular-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Vehicular Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/midEngine.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"midEngine\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3956\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/midEngine.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/midEngine-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>At some point months ago, the guys &amp; I were playing with Matchbox cars, and when they talked about a Ferrari&#8217;s engine being under the hood, I explained, &#8220;Actually that&#8217;s a mid-engine car. See, the engine goes behind the seats; you can tell by these vents here on the sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They were intrigued and asked, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t <em>we<\/em> have a mid-engine car?&#8221; I chuckled and, not wanting to get into why Dad-O can&#8217;t afford a Ferrari, said &#8220;Well, those cars tend to be small inside. They&#8217;re better for guys with no kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you know it, this little factoid keeps popping out at the oddest moments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One night Finn was mad at me for making him get ready for bed. He flopped onto the bedroom floor and most piteously said, &#8220;Dad-O, I just want you to step on me! I want there to be no more Finny, and then you&#8217;d get a mid-engine car!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Henry spotted a young couple out for dinner the other day &amp; said, &#8220;They don&#8217;t have any kids. They must have a mid-engine car.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We explained recently that before we had kids, instead of the Ocho we had a Jetta. &#8220;Oh,&#8221; observed Finny, &#8220;I guess it was mid-engine.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite my attempts to clarify the situation, the real info just isn&#8217;t taking. Ah well: I&#8217;ll just settle in for a life of cheerfully misinforming the boys, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dadbandwandcolour.jpg\">a la Calvin&#8217;s dad<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point months ago, the guys &amp; I were playing with Matchbox cars, and when they talked about a Ferrari&#8217;s engine being under the hood, I explained, &#8220;Actually that&#8217;s a mid-engine car. See, the engine goes behind the seats; you can tell by these vents here on the sides.&#8221; They were intrigued and asked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}