{"id":5539,"date":"2013-11-26T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2013-11-26T18:09:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:09:55","slug":"crowd-funding-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5539","title":{"rendered":"Crowd funding Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1aRVFoG\">Jaclyn Trop<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Lindsay Frandsen thought about registering for gifts for her wedding, she realized that what she and her husband really needed was a car. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Ms. Frandsen and her husband, Christian Burris, opened an account with a start-up company that lets potential car buyers reach out to their social networks for gifts. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;One year later, the couple had scraped together a down payment from their savings and the gifts from the registry. Hyundai also gave them a $500 credit for taking part in the program. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;\u201cWe got a good chunk toward our down payment,\u201d Ms. Frandsen, a 26-year-old driving instructor from Atlanta, said without being specific. \u201cIt\u2019s like 500 free dollars, basically.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaclyn Trop: When Lindsay Frandsen thought about registering for gifts for her wedding, she realized that what she and her husband really needed was a car. &nbsp;&nbsp;Ms. Frandsen and her husband, Christian Burris, opened an account with a start-up company that lets potential car buyers reach out to their social networks for gifts. &nbsp;&nbsp;One year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}