{"id":3181,"date":"2011-01-20T22:38:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T03:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2011-01-20T22:43:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T03:43:32","slug":"2011-north-american-international-auto-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/2011-north-american-international-auto-show\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 North American International Auto Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/moblog\/IMG_20110120_183612.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/96192-2\/IMG_20110120_183612.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"Mercedes-Benz showing how it's smart fortwo can carry a super-heavy Magna 2x Dual Suspension bicycle.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After leaving work today at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renaissance_Center\">RenCen<\/a> I hopped on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Detroit_People_Mover\">the nation&#8217;s stupidest public transport system<\/a> to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_American_International_Auto_Show\">North American International Auto Show<\/a>. I was originally planning on going with some new coworkers during the day, but actual work got in the way of that so I decided to go by myself afterward.<\/p>\n<p>The show was as expected, but worth the $12 admission as I got to wander around and look at interesting things, ride in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chevrolet_Volt\">Chevy Volt<\/a> on a small indoor test track in the basement, see a <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/moblog\/IMG_20110120_191209.jpg.html\">microscope that I would really like to have<\/a> (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visioneng.com\/lynx-stereo-inspection-microscope-overview.php\">Vision Engineering Lynx Dynascope<\/a>), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartusa.com\/smart-car-fortwo.aspx\">smart fortwo<\/a> seen above showing off it&#8217;s incredible strength by holding up a (52.2 lb) <a href=\"http:\/\/magnabike.com\/\">Magna<\/a> Excitor <i>2x Dual Suspension<\/i> not-for-off-road-use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/Magna-Excitor-Terrain-Bike-Black\/dp\/B001OTVGBI\">Terrain Bike<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving work today at the RenCen I hopped on the the nation&#8217;s stupidest public transport system to visit the North American International Auto Show.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/2011-north-american-international-auto-show\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2011 North American International Auto Show<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-cycling","category-travel","category-work","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}