{"id":5304,"date":"2025-11-17T01:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2025-11-17T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:06:13","slug":"an-ode-to-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2025\/11\/an-ode-to-the-car\/","title":{"rendered":"An ode to the car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The car. It killed horses jobs and our relationship to those majestic animals.<\/li>\n<li>It changed everything but I keep trying to imagine what it must have been to be stuck in a family, in a house, in a small village until your thirties. And all of a sudden, you have a vehicle affording you the instant gratification of absolute freedom: being able to go anywhere, anytime you want, quickly, easily, now. Escape to a hill and watch the sunset with your date\u2019s heart beating against yours. Of course people went crazy about cars.<\/li>\n<li>The car is supreme to listen to music. It\u2019s just science. A small box acoustically designed with six speakers will make music sound like it is from heaven (if you have good taste). I have a memory of being on Manchester Blvd with my girlfriends, windows open, warm evening breeze, full darkness five minutes away, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Up57jnV1W0k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Larry Heard, Missing you song (instrumental) on repeat<\/a> at the perfect volume where you can hear it all while still being able to talk. Perfect cruising. A memory for a lifetime.<\/li>\n<li>Road trips good or bad, are always memorable too. There is still something incredible about moving all together to the same location. <em>\u201csee you there!\u201d<\/em> Just like taking off in a plane, there\u2019s always this miraculous thing floating around it. Not so long ago in human history, this was impossible.<\/li>\n<li>Taking turns every hour and chatting about stuff is so awesome. There\u2019s something important to do (drive safe), it\u2019s team work, there\u2019s snacks and naps and music and conversations you might not have in other situations.<\/li>\n<li>Late night conversations. Honesty flowing like nowhere else.<\/li>\n<li>Hybrid cars are technological marvels using the best of both worlds (very simple electric system, very simple gas system) allowing them to go for 500,000 miles without sweating. The longer tools last and can be maintained for, the better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m not in car culture or anti-car, I\u2019m just like <em>\u201cwe need them and they\u2019re fine?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car. It killed horses jobs and our relationship to those majestic animals. It changed everything but I keep trying to imagine what it must have been to be stuck in a family, in a house, in a small village until your thirties. And all of a sudden, you have a vehicle affording you the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}