{"id":2680,"date":"2006-11-28T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T22:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2006-11-28T22:29:34","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T22:29:34","slug":"tesla_road_test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Road Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/classified\/automotive\/highway1\/la-hy-neil29nov29,0,7930203.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">Dan Neil<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But I can tell you, even from my brief spin in this dog-eared prototype, the Tesla Roadster delivers on its promise, which might be summarized as &#8220;stupid fun for smart people.&#8221; I think the Latin translation of same should appear on the company crest.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nIt takes a slight leg hoist and wriggle to get into the car and strap yourself into the thin carbon shell of a seat &mdash; a holdover from the Lotus Elise on which the car is based. The seat will change in the production car since its narrow width doesn&#8217;t exactly accommodate &#8220;American butts,&#8221; according Mike Harrigan, Tesla vice president of marketing. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Neil: But I can tell you, even from my brief spin in this dog-eared prototype, the Tesla Roadster delivers on its promise, which might be summarized as &#8220;stupid fun for smart people.&#8221; I think the Latin translation of same should appear on the company crest. It takes a slight leg hoist and wriggle to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}