{"id":2019,"date":"2005-12-16T06:45:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T06:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2005-12-16T06:45:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T06:45:19","slug":"the_worst_cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Cars &#8211; 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lifestyle\/vehicle\/2005\/12\/14\/worst-cars-2005-cx_dl_1215feat_ls.html?partner=rss\">Dan Lienert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Author J. Bryan III once wrote, &#8220;My Uncle Jonathan&#8217;s first car, circa 1910, was an E.M.F. The initials represented the manufacturers, Everitt, Metzger and Flanders of Detroit. But a long series of breakdowns led to their being translated as &#8216;Every Mechanical Fault'&#8221; (or &#8220;Every Morning Fixit,&#8221; as Nick Georgano states in the 2000 edition of The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile).<br \/>\nFortunately, no car today could merit such nicknames, right? Wrong. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Lienert: Author J. Bryan III once wrote, &#8220;My Uncle Jonathan&#8217;s first car, circa 1910, was an E.M.F. The initials represented the manufacturers, Everitt, Metzger and Flanders of Detroit. But a long series of breakdowns led to their being translated as &#8216;Every Mechanical Fault&#8217;&#8221; (or &#8220;Every Morning Fixit,&#8221; as Nick Georgano states in the 2000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}