{"id":5410,"date":"2013-10-06T14:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T02:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2013-10-08T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T02:53:40","slug":"it-was-a-saab-a-red-saab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5410","title":{"rendered":"It was a Saab, a Red Saab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dusk. The windows must be down.   Saturday night. 72F \/ 22C.   A warm breeze.  Fresh air.  A quick left, then the middle lane.  Accelerate.  Stop light.  Sprint.  Left lane.  Wait for traffic, turn left.   A quick right, more traffic.    <\/p>\n<p>Then, a red car.  An unusual shape.  Windows open as well. <\/p>\n<p>Left hand knifing in and out of the driver&#8217;s window.   Something in the driver&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<p>Dangling.  <\/p>\n<p>Fast motions. We share the same lane.  Accelerate.  <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=dsg\">Paddles<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The breeze delights.<\/p>\n<p>Crossing <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22State+Street%22+madison\">State street<\/a> &#8211; slowly, lots of people walking and biking.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy: &#8220;I think we are sharing his joint&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The red Saab drifts in and out of the center lane.  The left hand continues to dangle, the joint slicing the breeze.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we part company, the joint a quick left, destination unknown, while we continue on our tried and true path to dinner.  <\/p>\n<p>Windows down.  A terrific October breeze.<\/p>\n<p>A red Saab, an unusual <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22Saab+9-2x%22\">Saabaru<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=saab+9-2x&#038;es_sm=119&#038;tbm=isch&#038;tbo=u&#038;source=univ&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=KRNSUtCgJoK2qQGz9YDgDw&#038;sqi=2&#038;ved=0CEEQsAQ&#038;biw=1321&#038;bih=670&#038;dpr=1\">9-2x<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Another edition of my &#8220;auto anthropology&#8221; observations.<\/p>\n<p>Cars?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymcar.com\">Asymcar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dusk. The windows must be down. Saturday night. 72F \/ 22C. A warm breeze. Fresh air. A quick left, then the middle lane. Accelerate. Stop light. Sprint. Left lane. Wait for traffic, turn left. A quick right, more traffic. Then, a red car. An unusual shape. Windows open as well. Left hand knifing in and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410"}],"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=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}