{"id":247,"date":"2008-07-02T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-07-14T23:05:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T03:05:21","slug":"whats-new-pussycat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/whats-new-pussycat\/","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s new, pussycat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/scootie.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-248\" title=\"read about the love between man, and machine\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/scootie-300x300.gif?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/scootie.gif?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/scootie.gif?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/scootie.gif?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Ben Montgomery is a damn fine writer for the <strong>St. Pete Times<\/strong>.  When he&#8217;s not covering the impact gulf drilling would have on Florida beaches, he&#8217;s giving readers <a title=\"from suv to scooter - what's it like in the mellow lane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/features\/humaninterest\/article647870.ece\" target=\"_blank\">a first timers view of the road<\/a> from behind the handlebars of his massive new mistress red manly machine as it roars up and down the highways of greater Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>This is a wicked bad riff on machismo, life in the mellow lane, teenage taunting, and the memorable vagaries of owner&#8217;s &#8220;manuals&#8221; authored by the Chinese. As the flood of scooter related mentions goes these days, it&#8217;s well worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Montgomery is a damn fine writer for the St. Pete Times. When he&#8217;s not covering the impact gulf drilling would have on Florida beaches, he&#8217;s giving readers a first timers view of the road from behind the handlebars of his massive new mistress red manly machine as it roars up and down the highways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4,14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road","category-marketplace-news","category-powersports-industry-insight","tag-scooters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-3Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}