{"id":151,"date":"2005-05-09T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2005-05-09T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T20:06:13","slug":"new-mini-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"New MINI Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw plenty of MINIs in England this past week, more than I could have shaken a stick at, in fact. Interestingly to me, there were way more MCs than MCS&#8217;s and the few MCS&#8217;s that I saw were almost all JCW-badged. So this got me thinking again about trading my MCS in for something new. <\/p>\n<p>Given the environment I live and work in, it would be great to have the convertible but I highly doubt I could afford the MCS version. I wonder just what it would be like to go &#8216;down&#8217; to the MC, financially it would make great sense, cheaper to buy and cheaper to run with my monthly 1600 mile commute. I do love that sixth gear though on the MCS, and I know I would miss the whine of the supercharger when the engine takes off. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, seeing all those people happily buzzing around in their MCs over in England has me thinking again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw plenty of MINIs in England this past week, more than I could have shaken a stick at, in fact. Interestingly to me, there were way more MCs than MCS&#8217;s and the few MCS&#8217;s that I saw were almost all JCW-badged. So this got me thinking again about trading my MCS in for something new. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New MINI Revisited&#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-151","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\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}