{"id":281,"date":"2006-09-18T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T01:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/2006\/what-defines-an-enthusiast\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T01:05:23","slug":"what-defines-an-enthusiast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"What Defines an Enthusiast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife says I am a MINI-enthusiast because I read the blogs, the news sites, try to keep informed with all the changes etc. I say I&#8217;m not an enthusiast because I totally don&#8217;t care about things like Fireball Tim&#8217;s latest performance mods, or the latest carbon fibre rivets to give me that extra 0.1hp. So what exactly does define you as an enthusiast or not? Clearly I am more into MINIs than the average Kia driver is into their Kia, but I am a long way off of the interest of the &#8220;average&#8221; MINI enthusiast. Maybe there is a better word for &#8220;my kind&#8221;. Hmm&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll turn the vulgarity filter on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife says I am a MINI-enthusiast because I read the blogs, the news sites, try to keep informed with all the changes etc. I say I&#8217;m not an enthusiast because I totally don&#8217;t care about things like Fireball Tim&#8217;s latest performance mods, or the latest carbon fibre rivets to give me that extra 0.1hp. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Defines an Enthusiast?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}