{"id":5188,"date":"2016-07-19T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T07:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2016-07-19T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T07:10:10","slug":"forelorn-fireball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5188","title":{"rendered":"Forelorn Fireball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/07\/old_car_40684-6_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/07\/old_car_40684-6_hdr-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"old_car_40684-6_hdr\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/07\/old_car_40684-6_hdr.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/07\/old_car_40684-6_hdr-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/07\/old_car_40684-6_hdr-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>This is a 1950 Buick Roadmaster, a car known for its Straight Eight, or Fireball Eight, inline eight-cylinder engine.\u00a0 I remember hearing about this engine in the movie Rain Man, when Raymond mentions it.\u00a0 This one sits beside a rural road, its glory days long past.<\/p>\n<p>This car is noteworthy because Buick put those ports on the side of the car to denote power, or something.\u00a0 It&#8217;s that distinguishing feature which helps identify the year of the car, because the placement varied from year to year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really into classic cars, as nostalgic as I am about other things.\u00a0 I like technology, and hot rods really don&#8217;t have it.\u00a0 I can appreciate &#8217;em, don&#8217;t get me wrong.\u00a0 They&#8217;re especially nice to photograph, especially on a nice, sunny day under a North Dakota prairie sky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a 1950 Buick Roadmaster, a car known for its Straight Eight, or Fireball Eight, inline eight-cylinder engine.\u00a0 I remember hearing about this engine in the movie Rain Man, when Raymond mentions it.\u00a0 This one sits beside a rural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}