{"id":104,"date":"2009-01-13T13:47:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T18:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adambryson.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-01-13T13:47:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T18:47:42","slug":"car-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/2009\/01\/13\/car-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Car of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone else think that the annual North American International Auto Show is a little tainted this year with the boo-hoo of the Detroit 3 automakers saying they are broke? So when you are broke its supposed to be OK to party all week in Detroit and brag about how great everything is?<\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; I know that they made these plans &#8211; and probably already paid for most of it &#8211; months ago. It&#8217;s an annual thing. Maybe its the perfect confidence booster. Maybe they&#8217;ll be announcing some fantastic new cars that everyone will rush out to buy as soon as they hit the street. Let&#8217;s hope.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting news in the Chicago Tribune from the Auto Show this morning is that they announced the &#8220;2009 Car of the Year&#8221; is the Hyundai Genesis. This is the first time Hyundai has won an award in the 15 years it has been producing automobiles. The Genesis is Hyundai&#8217;s top of the line sedan and maybe it&#8217;s worth considering if you are in the market for a new traditional car this year. Personally, I want to hold out for a new hybrid or total electric car. I&#8217;m hearing good things about plug in the car at night and go about 40 miles each day without having to buy gas. Now that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone else think that the annual North American International Auto Show is a little tainted this year with the boo-hoo of the Detroit 3 automakers saying they are broke? So when you are broke its supposed to be OK to party all week in Detroit and brag about how great everything is? OK &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/2009\/01\/13\/car-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Car of the Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-going-green","category-news","category-wheels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}