{"id":114,"date":"2005-01-03T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2005-01-03T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T16:29:27","slug":"car-washing-and-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Car Washing and Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst washing my MINI yesterday I was struck by the similarities between that and flying. In both cases it doesn&#8217;t matter much what a great job you do, the activity is defined by just one thing: in flying, its the landing; in washing its the windscreen. Fly like an ace but all anyone asks is &#8220;how was the landing&#8221;. Wax that MINI to a supershine but if there is a smear on the windscreen, you did a bad job.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, I washed the MINI yesterday because I knew I&#8217;d be driving through a monsoon this morning. The road into the base must have been half an inch of standing water for the last 1\/2 mile. Its odd, but I don&#8217;t remember English motorways getting as waterlogged as the freeways in the US. Is it some difference in construction? Or am I just losing my mind? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst washing my MINI yesterday I was struck by the similarities between that and flying. In both cases it doesn&#8217;t matter much what a great job you do, the activity is defined by just one thing: in flying, its the landing; in washing its the windscreen. Fly like an ace but all anyone asks is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Car Washing and Flying&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}